Paula Mustonen
MD, PhD student
Hair cortisol
I am a doctoral student in the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study group (http://www.utu.fi/en/units/finnbrain/Pages/home.aspx). The topic of my PhD is to study the potential of hair cortisol concentration as a biomarker for prenatal stress.
- Associations of maternal prenatal hair cortisol with maternal and child distress symptoms - The FinnBrain birth cohort study (2024) Mustonen, Paula
- Negative associations between maternal prenatal hair cortisol and child socioemotional problems (2024)
- Psychoneuroendocrinology
- Hair cortisol, cortisone and DHEA concentrations and the composition of microbiota in toddlers (2023)
- Psychoneuroendocrinology
- Hair Cortisol Concentrations Are Associated with Dental Anxiety during Pregnancy (2021)
- Dentistry Journal
- Alexithymic Traits and Hair Cortisol Concentrations in Pregnant Women (2020)
- Frontiers in Psychiatry
- Maternal prenatal psychological distress and hair cortisol levels associate with infant fecal microbiota composition at 2.5 months of age (2020)
- Psychoneuroendocrinology
- Maternal prenatal hair cortisol is associated with prenatal depressive symptom trajectories (2019)
- Psychoneuroendocrinology
- Hair cortisol concentration (HCC) as a measure for prenatal psychological distress — A systematic review (2018)
- Psychoneuroendocrinology
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