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Linnea
Karlsson

Professor, Public Health
MD, PhD
FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study; Centre for Population Health Research

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+358 40 744 5052
Kiinamyllynkatu 10
20520
Turku

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FinnBrain
ORCID

Areas of expertise

cohort studies
early life stress
prenatal stress
stress
depression
anxiety
child psychiatry
adolescent psychiatry
gut-brain axish

Teaching

Public health

Research

I did my PhD within the field of psychiatric epidemiology and adolescent depression. During by PhD studies I also was involved in clinical epidemiological studies on adolescent mood disorders. In 2010, we established a birth cohort, the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study, with the main aim of investigating the how early life and prenatal stress shape brain developmental trajectories. I am currently (since July 2024) the PI pf the cohort.  My own research activity within the larger cohort is focused on the development of the gut-brain axis and child psychosocial development and the role of diverse prenatal adn early life exposures in these processes. My activity as a supervisor is also multidisciplinary as the PhD candidates represent, for example, variety of fields of medicine and psychology. I started in the tenure track position at the Centre for Population Health Research in Jan 2021 and continued as a professor of population health research, starting Octoberg 2023. 

Publications

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Lasten ja nuorten masennus (2025)

Karlsson, Linnea; Marttunen, Mauri; Kumpulainen, Kirsti
(D2 Artikkeli ammatillisessa kokoomateoksessa)

Sex-specific associations between maternal prenatal inflammation and offspring cortical morphology in youth: A harmonised study across four birth cohorts (2025)

Brain, Behavior, and Immunity
Niskanen, Anni; Barron, Aaron; Azaryah, Hatim; Kerkelä, Martta; Pulli, Elmo; Tuulari, Jetro J.; Lukkarinen, Minna; Karlsson, Linnea; Muetzel, Ryan L.; Campoy, Cristina; Catena, Andrés; Tiemeier, Henning; Khandaker, Golam M.; Karlsson, Hasse; Veijola, Juha; Björnholm, Lassi
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )

Consortium profile: the methylation, imaging and NeuroDevelopment (MIND) consortium (2025)

Molecular Psychiatry
Schuurmans, Isabel K.; Mulder, Rosa H.; Baltramonaityte, Vilte; Lahtinen, Alexandra; Qiuyu, Fan; Rothmann, Leonardo Melo; Staginnus, Marlene; Tuulari, Jetro J.; Burt, S. Alexandra; Buss, Claudia; Craig, Jeffrey M.; Donald, Kirsten A.; Eriksson, Johan G.; Felix, Janine F.; Freeman, Tom P.; Grassi-Oliveira, Rodrigo; Huels, Anke; Hyde, Luke W.; Jones, Scott A.; Karlsson, Hasse; Karlsson, Linnea; Koen, Nastassja; Lawn, Will; Mitchell, Colter; Monk, Christopher S.; Mooney, Michael A.; Muetzel, Ryan; Nigg, Joel T.; Belangero, Síntia Iole Nogueira; Notterman, Daniel; Ong, Yi Ying; O’Connor, Tom; O’Donnell, Kieran J.; Pan, Pedro Mario; Paunio, Tiina; Ryabinin, Peter; Saffery, Richard; Salum, Giovanni A.; Seal, Marc; Silk, Tim J.; Stein, Dan J.; Tan, Ai Peng; Teh, Ai Ling; Wang, Dennis; Zar, Heather; Walton, Esther; Cecil, Charlotte A. M.
(A2 Vertaisarvioitu katsausartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä)
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