Linnea Karlsson
MD, PhD
linnea.karlsson@utu.fi +358 40 744 5052 Kiinamyllynkatu 10 Turku Office: A505 ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4725-0176 |
cohort studies; early life stress; prenatal stress; stress; depression; anxiety; child psychiatry; adolescent psychiatry; gut-brain axish
FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study; Centre for Population Health 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 currently (since July 2024) the PI pf the 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 adn early life 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 and continued as a professor of population health research, starting Octoberg 2023.
Public health
- Hair cortisol, cortisone and DHEA concentrations and the composition of microbiota in toddlers (2023)
- Psychoneuroendocrinology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Higher attention bias for fear at 8 months of age is associated with better socioemotional competencies during toddlerhood (2023)
- Infant Behavior and Development
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Improved utilization of frequency-domain data for optical tomographic imaging of the human brain (2023)
- Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Infants' sex affects neural responses to affective touch in early infancy (2023)
- Developmental Psychobiology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Investigating the role of relationship satisfaction and paternal psychological distress during pregnancy on offspring health in early life (2023)
- BJPsych Open
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Latent profile analysis of diurnal cortisol patterns at the ages of 2, 3.5, and 5 years: Associations with childcare setting, child individual characteristics, and maternal distress (2023)
- Psychoneuroendocrinology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Longitudinal patterns of alcohol use and psychological symptoms during COVID-19 pandemic and role of alexithymia: A latent transition analysis in the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study (2023)
- Journal of Affective Disorders
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Maternal depression and anxiety symptoms across pregnancy and the postnatal period: Modest associations between depression symptoms and infant sleep outcomes (2023)
- Sleep Medicine
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Maternal executive functioning is associated with infant sustained attention, but not executive functioning, in a sex-specific manner (2023)
- Nordic Psychology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Maternal Perinatal Stress Trajectories and Negative Affect and Amygdala Development in Offspring (2023)
- American Journal of Psychiatry
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
