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 Anxiety Symptoms and Self-Regulation Capacity Are Associated With the Unpredictability of Maternal Sensory Signals in Caregiving Behavior (2020)
Frontiers in Psychology
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Infant fecal microbiota composition and attention to emotional faces (2020)
Emotion
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Association of Cumulative Paternal Early Life Stress With White Matter Maturation in Newborns (2020)
JAMA Network Open
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Maternal Depressive Symptoms During the Pre‐ and Postnatal Periods and Infant Attention to Emotional Faces (2020)
Child Development
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Prenatal maternal depressive symptoms are associated with smaller amygdalar volumes of four-year-old children (2020)
Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
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The longitudinal associations between temperament and sleep during the first year of life (2020)
Infant Behavior and Development
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Maternal sleep quality during pregnancy is associated with neonatal auditory ERPs (2020)
Scientific Reports
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Outcome of depressive mood disorder among adolescent outpatients in an eight-year follow-up (2020)
Journal of Affective Disorders
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The association of maternal-fetal attachment with smoking and smoking cessation during pregnancy in The FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study (2020)
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
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Relationship between maternal pregnancy-related anxiety and infant brain responses to emotional speech – a pilot study (2020)
Journal of Affective Disorders
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