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
Feasibility of FreeSurfer Processing for T1-Weighted Brain Images of 5-Year-Olds: Semiautomated Protocol of FinnBrain Neuroimaging Lab (2022)
Frontiers in Neuroscience
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Subcortical and hippocampal brain segmentation in 5-year-old children: Validation of FSL-FIRST and FreeSurfer against manual segmentation (2022)
European Journal of Neuroscience
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Maternal sensitivity at the age of 8 months associates with local connectivity of the medial prefrontal cortex in children at 5 years of age (2022)
Frontiers in Neuroscience
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Gender-specific associations between the dimensions of alexithymia personality trait and dental anxiety in parents of the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study (2022)
European Journal of Oral Sciences
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Unpredictable maternal sensory signals in caregiving behavior are associated with child effortful control (2022)
PLoS ONE
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The Connection and Development of Unpredictability and Sensitivity in Maternal Care Across Early Childhood (2022)
Frontiers in Psychology
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Imaging affective and non-affective touch processing in two-year-old children (2022)
NeuroImage
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Brain charts for the human lifespan (2022)
Nature
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Allometry in the corpus callosum in neonates: Sexual dimorphism (2022)
Human Brain Mapping
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Test-retest reliability of diffusion tensor imaging scalars in 5-year-olds (2022)
Human Brain Mapping
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