Linnea
Karlsson
Professor, Public Health
MD, PhD
FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study; Centre for Population Health Research
Areas of expertise
cohort studies
early life stress
prenatal stress
stress
depression
anxiety
child psychiatry
adolescent psychiatry
gut-brain axish
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 the co-PI of the highly multidisciplinary 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 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.
Publications
Maternal Psychological Distress and Executive Functions Are Associated During Early Parenthood - A FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study (2021)
Frontiers in Psychology
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Behavioral regulatory problems are associated with a lower attentional bias to fearful faces during infancy (2021)
Child Development
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Children's diurnal cortisol output and temperament in two different childcare settings at 2 and 3.5 years of age (2021)
Developmental Psychobiology
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A variation in the infant oxytocin receptor gene modulates infant hippocampal volumes in association with sex and prenatal maternal anxiety (2021)
Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
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Investigating the Effects of Perinatal Status and Gender on Adults' Responses to Infant and Adult Facial Emotion (2021)
Emotion
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Associations between maternal socioeconomic, psychosocial and seasonal factors, infant characteristics and human milk cortisol concentrations (2021)
American Journal of Human Biology
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Toisiolaki hankaloittaa terveystutkimuksia eikä anna lisäarvoa tietoturvaan (2021)
Lääkärilehti
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Is the oral health-related quality of life associated with quality of life among pregnant Finnish families: a cross-sectional study (2021)
Acta Odontologica Scandinavica
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Maternal pre-pregnancy BMI associates with neonate local and distal functional connectivity of the left superior frontal gyrus (2021)
Scientific Reports
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Associations Between IFI44L Gene Variants and Rates of Respiratory Tract Infections During Early Childhood (2021)
Journal of Infectious Diseases
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