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
Hair cortisol, cortisone and DHEA concentrations and the composition of microbiota in toddlers (2023)
Psychoneuroendocrinology
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Mother–infant interaction and maternal postnatal psychological distress are associated with negative emotional reactivity among infants and toddlers— A FinnBrain Birth Cohort study (2023)
Infant Behavior and Development
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Prenatal and Postnatal Maternal Depressive Symptoms Are Associated With White Matter Integrity in 5-Year-Olds in a Sex-Specific Manner (2023)
Biological Psychiatry
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Concurrent changes in dental anxiety and smoking in parents of the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study (2023)
European Journal of Oral Sciences
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Investigating the role of relationship satisfaction and paternal psychological distress during pregnancy on offspring health in early life (2023)
BJPsych Open
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Trait reactance as psychological motivation to reject vaccination: Two longitudinal studies and one experimental study (2023)
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))Sex differences, asymmetry, and age-related white matter development in infants and 5-year-olds as assessed with tract-based spatial statistics (2023)
Human Brain Mapping
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
A longitudinal resource for population neuroscience of school-age children and adolescents in China (2023)
Scientific Data
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Early-life environment and the risk of eczema at 2 years-Meta-analyses of six Finnish birth cohorts (2023)
Pediatric Allergy and Immunology
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Childcare context and socio-emotional development in toddlers - a quantitative report from the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study, Finland (2023)
European Early Childhood Education Research Journal
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))