Linnea Karlsson
MD, PhD
linnea.karlsson@utu.fi +358 40 744 5052 Kiinamyllynkatu 10 Turku : A505 |
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 toddlersImproved utilization of frequency-domain data for optical tomographic imaging of the human brain (2023)
- PsychoneuroendocrinologyProgress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging
- Higher attention bias for fear at 8 months of age is associated with better socioemotional competencies during toddlerhood (2023)
- Infant Behavior and Development
- (2023)
- Infants' sex affects neural responses to affective touch in early infancy (2023)
- Developmental Psychobiology
- Investigating the role of relationship satisfaction and paternal psychological distress during pregnancy on offspring health in early lifeLatent 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)
- BJPsych Open
- (2023)
- Psychoneuroendocrinology
- 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 StudyMaternal executive functioning is associated with infant sustained attention, but not executive functioning, in a sex-specific manner (2023)
- Journal of Affective DisordersNordic Psychology
- Maternal depression and anxiety symptoms across pregnancy and the postnatal period: Modest associations between depression symptoms and infant sleep outcomesMaternal Perinatal Stress Trajectories and Negative Affect and Amygdala Development in Offspring (2023)
- Sleep Medicine
- (2023)
- (2023)
- American Journal of Psychiatry
