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
Early-life adversities and adult attachment in depression and alexithymia (2020)
Development and Psychopathology
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Epidural Analgesia During Childbirth and Postpartum Depressive Symptoms: A Population-Based Longitudinal Cohort Study (2020)
Anesthesia and Analgesia
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Sex-specific association between infant caudate volumes and a polygenic risk score for major depressive disorder (2020)
Journal of Neuroscience Research
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Hemodynamic responses to emotional speech in two-month-old infants imaged using diffuse optical tomography (2019)
Scientific Reports
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Neural correlates of gentle skin stroking in early infancy (2019)
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Reply to the Letter to the Editor: Gut microbiota composition is associated with temperament traits in infants (2019)
Brain, Behavior, and Immunity
(Kirjoitus tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (B1))
Maternal Pre- and Postnatal Anxiety Symptoms and Infant Attention Disengagement from Emotional Faces (2019)
Journal of Affective Disorders
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
A Novel Approach for Manual Segmentation of the Amygdala and Hippocampus in Neonate MRI (2019)
Frontiers in Neuroscience
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Test-retest reliability of Diffusion Tensor Imaging metrics in neonates (2019)
NeuroImage
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
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))