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April 2012 Helsingin yliopisto (University of Helsinki) A survey
on the mental health of eight-year-old children could help
identify those individuals who are highly likely to require
psychiatric treatment in their teens or early adulthood, shows a
study conducted at the University of Helsinki. Should “mental
health checkups” be made part of health care in schools? ”The
early detection of children who are showing psychiatric symptoms
or are at the risk of a mental disorder is crucial, but
introducing ”mental health checkups” as part of health care in
schools is not altogether simple,” says David Gyllenberg, MD,
whose doctoral dissertation "Childhood Predictors of Later
Psychotropic Medication Use and Psychiatric Hospital Treatment -
Findings from the Finnish Nationwide 1981 Birth Cohort Study"
was publically examined at the University of Helsinki on 13
April 2012. In Gyllenberg’s study, the