The following scientific and popular publications are the result of the Equal‐Life project so far. This list is regularly updated.

Scientific Publications

  1. Afonin, A. M., Piironen, A. K., de Sousa Maciel, I., Ivanova, M., Alatalo, A., Whipp, A. M., ... & Kanninen, K. M. (2024). Proteomic insights into mental health status: plasma markers in young adults. Translational Psychiatry14(1), 55.
  2. Afonin, A. M., Piironen, A. K., de Sousa Maciel, I., Ivanova, M., Alatalo, A., Whipp, A. M., ... & Kanninen, K. M. (2024). Proteomic insights into mental health status: plasma markers in young adults. Translational Psychiatry, 14(1), 55.
  3. Alatalo, A., de Sousa Maciel, I., Kucháriková, N., Chew, S., van Kamp, I., Foraster, M., ... & Kanninen, K. M. (2023). The interaction between circulating cell-free mitochondrial DNA and inflammatory cytokines in predicting human mental health issue risk in adolescents: an explorative study. Biomedicines, 11(3), 818.
  4. Botteldooren, D. (2023). Fast noise mapping: A machine learning approach for predicting traffic noise indicators. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America153(3_supplement), A261-A261.
  5. de Sousa Maciel, I., Piironen, A. K., Afonin, A. M., Ivanova, M., Alatalo, A., Jadhav, K. K., ... & Kanninen, K. M. (2023). Plasma proteomics discovery of mental health risk biomarkers in adolescents. Nature mental health, 1(8), 596-605.
  6. Dohmen, M., Braat-Eggen, E., Kemperman, A., & Hornikx, M. (2022). The effects of noise on cognitive performance and helplessness in childhood: A review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(1), 288.
  7. Drouard, G., Hagenbeek, F. A., Whipp, A. M., Pool, R., Hottenga, J. J., Jansen, R., ... & Kaprio, J. (2023). Longitudinal multi-omics study reveals common etiology underlying association between plasma proteome and BMI trajectories in adolescent and young adult twins. BMC medicine, 21(1), 508.
  8. Dzhambov, A. M., Lercher, P., & Botteldooren, D. (2024). Childhood sound disturbance and sleep problems in Alpine valleys with high levels of traffic exposures and greenspace. Environmental Research, 242, 117642.
  9. Dzhambov, A. M., Lercher, P., Vincens, N., Waye, K. P., Klatte, M., Leist, L., ... & van Kamp, I. (2023). Protective effect of restorative possibilities on cognitive function and mental health in children and adolescents: A scoping review including the role of physical activity. Environmental Research, 116452.
  10. Dzhambov, A. M., Lercher, P., Rüdisser, J., Browning, M. H., & Markevych, I. (2022). Home gardens and distances to nature associated with behavior problems in alpine schoolchildren: Role of secondhand smoke exposure and biomarkers. International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health, 243, 113975.
  11. Gudi-Mindermann, H., White, M., Roczen, J., Riedel, N., Dreger, S., & Bolte, G. (2023). Integrating the social environment with an equity perspective into the exposome paradigm: a new conceptual framework of the Social Exposome. Environmental Research, 233, 116485.
  12. Heinonen-Guzejev, M., Whipp, A. M., Wang, Z., Ranjit, A., Palviainen, T., van Kamp, I., & Kaprio, J. (2023). Perceived occupational noise exposure and depression in young Finnish adults. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(6), 4850.
  13. Jansen, S. N., Kamphorst, B. A., Mulder, B. C., van Kamp, I., Boekhold, S., van den Hazel, P., & Verweij, M. F. (2024). Ethics of early detection of disease risk factors: A scoping review. BMC Medical Ethics, 25(1), 25.
  14. Loh, K., Yadav, M., Persson Waye, K., Klatte, M., & Fels, J. (2022). Toward child-appropriate acoustic measurement methods in primary schools and daycare centers. Frontiers in Built Environment, 8, 688847.
  15. Martínez-Vilavella, G., Pujol, J., Blanco-Hinojo, L., Deus, J., Rivas, I., Persavento, C., ... & Foraster, M. (2023). The effects of exposure to road traffic noise at school on central auditory pathway functional connectivity. Environmental Research226, 115574.
  16. Milias, V., & Psyllidis, A. (2022). Measuring spatial age segregation through the lens of co-accessibility to urban activities. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 95, 101829.
  17. Milias, V., & Psyllidis, A. (2021). Assessing the influence of point-of-interest features on the classification of place categories. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 86, 101597.
  18. Persson Waye, K., Löve, J., Lercher, P., Dzhambov, A. M., Klatte, M., Schreckenberg, D., ... & Equal-life Scientific Team. (2023). Adopting a child perspective for exposome research on mental health and cognitive development-Conceptualisation and opportunities. Environmental Research, 239, 117279.
  19. Teeuwen, R., Milias, V., Bozzon, A., & Psyllidis, A. (2024). How well do NDVI and OpenStreetMap data capture people’s visual perceptions of urban greenspace?. Landscape and Urban Planning, 245, 105009.
  20. Teeuwen, R., Psyllidis, A., & Bozzon, A. (2023). Measuring children's and adolescents' accessibility to greenspaces from different locations and commuting settings. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 100, 101912.
  21. Terzakis, M. E., Dohmen, M., van Kamp, I., & Hornikx, M. (2022). Noise Indicators Relating to Non-Auditory Health Effects in Children—A Systematic Literature Review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(23), 15633.

  22. Van Kamp, I., Waye, K. P., Kanninen, K., Gulliver, J., Bozzon, A., Psyllidis, A., ... & Team, E. L. S. (2022). Early environmental quality and life-course mental health effects: The Equal-Life project. Environmental Epidemiology, 6(1), e183.

  23. Van Renterghem, T., Le Bescond, V., Dekoninck, L., & Botteldooren, D. (2023). Advanced Noise Indicator Mapping Relying on a City Microphone Network. Sensors23(13), 5865.

  24. Wang, Z., Drouard, G., Whipp, A. M., Heinonen-Guzejev, M., Bolte, G., & Kaprio, J. (2024). Association between trajectories of the neighborhood social exposome and mental health in late adolescence: A FinnTwin12 cohort study. Journal of Affective Disorders358, 70-78.

  25. Wang, Z., Whipp, A. M., Heinonen-Guzejev, M., Foraster, M., Júlvez, J., & Kaprio, J. (2023). The association between urban land use and depressive symptoms in young adulthood: a FinnTwin12 cohort study. Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology, 1-10.

  26. Wang, Z., Zellers, S., Whipp, A. M., Heinonen-Guzejev, M., Foraster, M., Júlvez, J., ... & Kaprio, J. (2023). The effect of environment on depressive symptoms in late adolescence and early adulthood: an exposome-wide association study and twin modeling. Nature Mental Health1(10), 751-760.

  27. Wang, Z., Whipp, A., Heinonen-Guzejev, M., & Kaprio, J. (2022). Age at separation of twin pairs in the FinnTwin12 study. Twin Research and Human Genetics, 25(2), 67-73.

  28. Whipp, A. M., Vuoksimaa, E., Korhonen, T., Pool, R., But, A., Ligthart, L., ... & Kaprio, J. (2021). Ketone body 3-hydroxybutyrate as a biomarker of aggression. Scientific reports, 11(1), 5813.
  29. Whipp, A. M., Heinonen-Guzejev, M., Pietiläinen, K. H., van Kamp, I., & Kaprio, J. (2022). Branched-chain amino acids linked to depression in young adults. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 16, 935858.

Popular & Conference Publications

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