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
Is Antidepressant Use Associated With Difficulty Identifying Feelings? A Brief Report (2018)
Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Short-term longitudinal changes in adult dental fear (2018)
European Journal of Oral Sciences
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Human milk cortisol concentration predicts experimentally induced infant fear reactivity: moderation by infant sex (2018)
Developmental Science
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Education is the strongest socio-economic predictor of smoking in pregnancy (2018)
Addiction
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Healthy full-term infants’ brain responses to emotionally and linguistically relevant sounds using a multi-feature mismatch negativity (MMN) paradigm (2018)
Neuroscience Letters
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Exploring parental mentalization in postnatal phase with a self-report questionnaire (PRFQ): Factor structure, gender differences and association with sociodemographic factors. The Finn Brain Birth Cohort Study (2018)
Psychiatry Research
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Affective and non-affective touch evokes differential brain responses in 2-month-old infants (2018)
NeuroImage
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Emotional Processing in the First 2 Years of Life: A Review of Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Studies (2018)
Journal of Neuroimaging
(Vertaisarvioitu katsausartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A2))
Cohort Profile: The FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study (FinnBrain) (2018)
International Journal of Epidemiology
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Hair cortisol concentration (HCC) as a measure for prenatal psychological distress — A systematic review (2018)
Psychoneuroendocrinology
(Vertaisarvioitu katsausartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A2))