Journal of Affective Disorders
Volume 74, Issue 3 , Pages 273-278 , May 2003

Criminality in the offspring of antenatally depressed mothers: a 33-year follow-up of the Northern Finland 1966 Birth Cohort

  • Pirjo Mäki

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Oulu, P.O. Box 5000, FIN-90014 Oulu, Finland
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +358-8-315-7297; fax: +358-8-333-167
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  • Juha Veijola

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Oulu, P.O. Box 5000, FIN-90014 Oulu, Finland
    • Department of Public Health Science and General Practice, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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  • Pirkko Räsänen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Oulu, P.O. Box 5000, FIN-90014 Oulu, Finland
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  • Matti Joukamaa

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Oulu, P.O. Box 5000, FIN-90014 Oulu, Finland
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  • Pauliina Valonen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland
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  • Jari Jokelainen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Oulu, P.O. Box 5000, FIN-90014 Oulu, Finland
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  • Matti Isohanni

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Oulu, P.O. Box 5000, FIN-90014 Oulu, Finland

Received 22 June 2000 ,Revised 3 January 2002 ,Accepted 4 January 2002.

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☆ Preliminary results of the study with a shorter follow-up period have been reported at the XI World Congress of Psychiatry, Hamburg, August 10, 1999.

PII: S0165-0327(02)00019-8

doi: 10.1016/S0165-0327(02)00019-8

Journal of Affective Disorders
Volume 74, Issue 3 , Pages 273-278 , May 2003

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