Amir Sariaslan

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Journal article: JOURNAL OF CHILD PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY. 2026;67(8):1383-1392
Violent and sexual victimisation and incident anxiety, mood and substance use disorders in childhood and adolescence: a co-sibling study.
Pitkänen J; Sariaslan A; Bishop L; Aaltonen M; Mielityinen L; Laajasalo T; Ellonen N; Martikainen P
Article: BRITISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY. 2026;229(1):43-50
Oral glucocorticoids and risk of psychiatric and suicidal behaviour outcomes: population-based cohort study
Lagerberg T; Gustafsson TT; Molero Y; Forton J; Sariaslan A; Chang Z; Larsson H; Lichtenstein P; Fazel S
Journal article: EUROPEAN PSYCHIATRY. 2026;69(1):e60
Improving risk assessment in forensic mental health: Temporal validation and clinical refinement of the FoVOx risk tool
Sivak L; Forsman J; Sariaslan A; Tiihonen J; Fazel S
Journal article: BMJ-BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL. 2025;389:r634
Use of real world data to understand self-harm risk in people prescribed gabapentinoids.
Sariaslan A; Fazel S
Journal article: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY. 2025;54(3):dyaf074
Childhood household dysfunction and psychiatric, criminal, and social outcomes in emerging adulthood. A cousin comparison study.
Pitkänen J; Sariaslan A; Bishop L; Martikainen P
Article: PLOS MEDICINE. 2024;21(10):e1004410
Risk of common psychiatric disorders, suicidal behaviours, and premature mortality following violent victimisation: A matched cohort and sibling-comparison study of 127,628 people who experienced violence in Finland and Sweden
Sariaslan A; Pitkanen J; Forsman J; Kuja-Halkola R; Brikell I; D'Onofrio BM; Aaltonen M; Larsson H; Martikainen P; Lichtenstein P; Fazel S
Journal article: OBSTETRIC ANESTHESIA DIGEST. 2023;43(4):207-208
Labor Epidural Analgesia and Subsequent Risk of Offspring Autism Spectrum Disorder and Attention-deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A Cross-National Cohort Study of 4.5 Million Individuals and Their Siblings
Hegvik TA; Klungsøyr K; Kuja-Halkola R; Remes H; Haavik J; D'Onofrio BM; Metsä-Simola N; Engeland A; Fazel S; Lichtenstein P; Martikainen P; Larsson H; Sariaslan A
Article: LANCET PUBLIC HEALTH. 2023;8(6):e432-e441
Post-traumatic stress disorder and the risk of violent crime conviction in Sweden: a nationwide, register-based cohort study
Paulino A; Kuja-Halkola R; Fazel S; Sariaslan A; Du Rietz E; Lichtenstein P; Brikell I
Article: BMJ MENTAL HEALTH. 2023;26(1):e300758
Physical injuries as triggers for self-harm: a within-individual study of nearly 250 000 injured people with a major psychiatric disorder
Sariaslan A; Larsson H; Hawton K; Pitkaenen J; Lichtenstein P; Martikainen P; Fazel S
Journal article: PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE. 2023;53(7):3236-3237
Reply to Seon et al.'s 'To prevent arrest and convictions, prescribe antipsychotics'
Sariaslan A; Fazel S
Journal article: TRANSLATIONAL PSYCHIATRY. 2023;13(1):126
Predicting suicide risk in 137,112 people with severe mental illness in Finland: external validation of the Oxford Mental Illness and Suicide tool (OxMIS)
Sariaslan A; Fanshawe T; Pitkanen J; Cipriani A; Martikainen P; Fazel S
Article: PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE. 2023;53(4):1510-1517
Neurodevelopmental disorders and subsequent risk of violent victimization: exploring sex differences and mechanisms
Ghirardi L; Kuja-Halkola R; Pettersson E; Sariaslan A; Arseneault L; Fazel S; D'Onofrio BM; Lichtenstein P; Larsson H
Article: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY. 2023;228(2):233.e1-233.e12
Labor epidural analgesia and subsequent risk of offspring autism spectrum disorder and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a cross-national cohort study of 4.5 million individuals and their siblings
Hegvik T-A; Klungsoyr K; Kuja-Halkola R; Remes H; Haavik J; D'Onofrio BM; Metsa-Simola N; Engeland A; Fazel S; Lichtenstein P; Martikainen P; Larsson H; Sariaslan A
Article: JOURNAL OF RESEARCH ON EDUCATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS. 2023;16(1):106-133
Estimating the Importance of Families in Modeling Educational Achievement Using Linked Swedish Administrative Data
French R; Sariaslan A; Larsson H; Kneale D; Leckie G
Journal article: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY. 2022;51(6):2028-2030
What can siblings and cousins tell us about the role of early life family income in the aetiologies of violent crime, substance misuse and psychiatric morbidity?
Sariaslan A; Mikkonen J; Aaltonen M; Hiilamo H; Martikainen P; Fazel S
Article: PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE. 2022;52(16):3792-3800
Associations between individual antipsychotics and the risk of arrests and convictions of violent and other crime: a nationwide within-individual study of 74 925 persons
Sariaslan A; Leucht S; Zetterqvist J; Lichtenstein P; Fazel S
Article: MOLECULAR PSYCHIATRY. 2022;27(5):2439-2447
The impact of educational attainment, intelligence and intellectual disability on schizophrenia: a Swedish population-based register and genetic study
Song J; Yao S; Kowalec K; Lu Y; Sariaslan A; Szatkiewicz JP; Larsson H; Lichtenstein P; Hultman CM; Sullivan PF
Article: PLOS MEDICINE. 2022;19(1):e1003864
Psychiatric comorbidity and risk of premature mortality and suicide among those with chronic respiratory diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and diabetes in Sweden: A nationwide matched cohort study of over 1 million patients and their unaffected siblings
Sariaslan A; Sharpe M; Larsson H; Wolf A; Lichtenstein P; Fazel S
Journal article: JAMA PEDIATRICS. 2022;176(1):e214324
Long-term Health and Social Outcomes in Children and Adolescents Placed in Out-of-Home Care
Sariaslan A; Kaariala A; Pitkanen J; Remes H; Aaltonen M; Hiilamo H; Martikainen P; Fazel S
Journal article: EUROPEAN JOURNAL ON CRIMINAL POLICY AND RESEARCH. 2022;28(3):397-406
Towards a More Evidence-Based Risk Assessment for People in the Criminal Justice System: the Case of OxRec in the Netherlands
Fazel S; Sariaslan A; Fanshawe T
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Preprint: MEDRXIV. 2026
Improving risk assessment in forensic mental health: temporal validation and clinical refinement of the FoVOx risk tool
Sivak L; Forsman J; Sariaslan A; Tiihonen J; Fazel S
Preprint: PSYARXIV. 2026
Methodological Concerns in Spittal et al.’s Meta-Analysis of Machine Learning Algorithms for Suicide Risk
Sariaslan A; Montes MV
Preprint: MEDRXIV. 2025
Genetic and environmental architecture of violent victimisation across development and sex: A study of 4.5 million Nordic twins and siblings
Sariaslan A; Kuja-Halkola R; Forsman J; Pitkänen J; du Rietz E; Chang Z; D’Onofrio B; Aaltonen M; Larsson H; Martikainen P; Lichtenstein P; Fazel S
Preprint: MEDRXIV. 2025
Prediction of 5-year mortality risk in 784,892 people with mental illness: Development and validation of a novel clinical prognostic model (MortOx)
Sariaslan A; Fanshawe T; Forsman J; Pitkänen J; Kuja-Halkola R; Brikell I; Chang Z; Larsson H; Martikainen P; Lichtenstein P; Fazel S
Preprint: MEDRXIV. 2024
Risk of common psychiatric disorders, suicidal behaviours and premature mortality following violent victimisation: A matched cohort and sibling-comparison study of 127,628 people who experienced violence in Finland and Sweden
Sariaslan A; Pitkänen J; Forsman J; Kuja-Halkola R; Brikell I; D’Onofrio B; Aaltonen M; Larsson H; Martikainen P; Lichtenstein P; Fazel S
Preprint: RESEARCH SQUARE. 2022
Predicting suicide risk in 137 112 people with severe mental illness in Finland: external validation of the Oxford Mental Illness and Suicide tool (OxMIS)
Sariaslan A; Fanshawe T; Pitkänen J; Cipriani A; Martikainen P; Fazel S
Conference publication: EUROPEAN NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY. 2021;51:E137-E138
THE IMPACT OF EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT, IN-TELLIGENCE AND INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY ON SCHIZOPHRENIA: A SWEDISH POPULATION-BASED REGISTER AND GENETIC STUDY
Song J; Yao S; Kowalec K; Lu Y; Sariaslan A; Szatkiewicz J; Larsson H; Lichtenstein P; Hultman C; Sullivan P
Conference publication: EUROPEAN NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY. 2019;29:S215
INCREASED SCHIZOPHRENIA FAMILY HISTORY BURDEN AND REDUCED PREMORBID IQ IN TREATMENT-RESISTANT SCHIZOPHRENIA: A SWEDISH NATIONAL REGISTER AND GENOMIC STUDY
Kowalec K; Yi L; Sariaslan A; Song J; Ploner A; Dalman C; Hultman C; Larsson H; Lichtenstein P; Sullivan P
Letter: GUT. 2019;68(5):947-948
No association between urbanisation, neighbourhood deprivation and IBD: a population-based study of 4 million individuals
Butwicka A; Sariaslan A; Larsson H; Halfvarson J; Myrelid PE; Olen O; Frisen L; Lichtenstein P; Ludvigsson JF
Conference publication: EUROPEAN NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY. 2019;29:S921-S922
A CHROMATIN CATALOG FOR THE INTERPRETATION OF GENETIC ASSOCIATIONS OF PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS
Giusti-Rodriguez P; Lu L; Crowley C; Bryois J; Liu X; Sariaslan A; Juric I; Martin J; Ancalade N; DeCristo D; Stockmeier C; Hu M; Jin F; Li Y; Sullivan P
Book chapter: NEW WAYS OF WORKING PRACTICES. 2016;p. 29-47
Boundaryless Work, Psychological Detachment and Sleep: Does Working ‘Anytime – Anywhere’ Equal Employees Are ‘Always on’?
Mellner C; Kecklund G; Kompier M; Sariaslan A; Aronsson G
Conference publication: BEHAVIOR GENETICS. 2015;45(6):646-647
Genetic overlap between neuropsychiatric problems in childhood and psychotic experiences in adolescence and emerging adulthood
Cederloef M; Pettersson E; Sariaslan A; Larsson H; Oestberg P; Kelleher I; Langstroem N; Anckarsaeter H; Gumpert CH; Lundstroem S; Lichtenstein P
Conference publication: SCHIZOPHRENIA BULLETIN. 2015;41:S146
STUDYING A CREATIVE SUBJECT AT UNIVERSITY IS ASSOCIATED WITH INCREASED RISK FOR PSYCHOSIS: A CASE CONTROL STUDY AND DISCORDANT SIB-PAIR ANALYSIS OF 4,454,763 INDIVIDUALS USING SWEDISH POPULATION DATA
MacCabe JH; Larsson H; Sariaslan A; Lichtenstein P; Kyaga S
Doctoral thesis: 2015
Exploring the causal nature of neighborhood influences on violent criminality, substance misuse and psychiatric morbidity
Sariaslan A
Conference publication: BEHAVIOR GENETICS. 2014;44(6):681-682
Familial co-aggregation of schizophrenia and neighborhood deprivation: from sibling and twin comparisons to polygenic risks
Sariaslan A; Fazel S; D'Onofrio B; Langstrom N; Larsson H; Bergen S; Kuja-Halkola R; Lichtenstein P
Conference publication: BEHAVIOR GENETICS. 2013;43(6):528
Parental bipolar disorder and adverse outcomes in offspring: Exploring mechanisms using a cousin-comparison design
Landen M; Sariaslan A; D'Onofrio B; Lichtenstein P
Conference publication: BEHAVIOR GENETICS. 2012;42(6):967
School performance but not neighborhood deprivation and social capital predicts serious adolescent criminality and substance use disorders
Sariaslan A; D'Onofrio B; Lichtenstein P
Conference publication: BEHAVIOR GENETICS. 2012;42(6):946
Family income in early childhood as a causal risk factor for offspring attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
Larsson H; Sariaslan A; Langstrom N; D'Onofrio B; Lichtenstein P
Preprint: CRIMRXIV.
Towards a More Evidence-Based Risk Assessment for People in the Criminal Justice System: the Case of OxRec in the Netherlands
Fazel S; Sariaslan A; Fanshawe T

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Affiliated to Research, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, 2026-2027

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Degree Of Doctor Of Philosophy, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, 2015

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