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
How maternal pre- and postnatal symptoms of depression and anxiety affect early mother-infant interaction? (2019)
Journal of Affective Disorders
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Trajectories of maternal pre- and postnatal anxiety and depressive symptoms and infant fear: Moderation by infant sex (2019)
Journal of Affective Disorders
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Prenatal exposures and infant brain: Review of magnetic resonance imaging studies and a population description analysis (2019)
Human Brain Mapping
(Vertaisarvioitu katsausartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A2))
Prenatal Maternal Psychological Distress and Offspring Risk for Recurrent Respiratory Infections (2019)
Journal of Pediatrics
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
The Pregnancy Anxiety Questionnaire Revised-2 (2019)
European Journal of Psychological Assessment
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Toddlers’ diurnal cortisol levels affected by out-of-home, center-based childcare and at-home, guardian-supervised childcare: comparison between different caregiving contexts (2019)
European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Prenatal maternal distress associates with a blunted cortisol response in rhinovirus-positive infants (2019)
Psychoneuroendocrinology
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Larger Newborn Left Amygdala Volume Predicts Poorer Working Memory in Toddlerhood (2019)
Biological Psychiatry
(Muu (O2))
Associations of age and sex with brain volumes and asymmetry in 2–5-week-old infants (2019)
Brain Structure and Function
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Gut microbiota composition is associated with temperament traits in infants (2019)
Brain, Behavior, and Immunity
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))