Emma Fransson
Researcher at Department of Women's and Children's Health; Medical psychology and care science
- E-mail:
- emma.fransson@uu.se
- Visiting address:
- MTC-huset, Dag Hammarskjölds väg 14B, 1 tr
752 37 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Akademiska sjukhuset
751 85 UPPSALA
More information is available to staff who log in.
Short presentation
My research focus on mental and reproductive health with the objective to identify biomarkers for perinatal complications including preterm birth and poor mental health.
Keywords
- human microbiome
- inflammation
- postpartum depression
- preterm birth
Research
Ongoing projects
3PAD - investigating neurophysiological measures as predictors of perinatal depression
https://www.kbh.uu.se/forskning/obstetrisk-och-reproduktiv-halsoforskning/huvudforskningsomraden-och-projekt/3pad/
Mom2B - a mobile application study for prediction of depressive symptoms and preterm birth, www.mom2b.se
SweMaMi (Karolinska Institutet) - a study to investigate maternal microbiome and perinatal complications.
www.swemami.se
Publications
Selection of publications
- Investigating heart rate variability measures during pregnancy as predictors of postpartum depression and anxiety: an exploratory study (2024)
- Feeling better? - Identification, interventions, and remission among women with early postpartum depressive symptoms in Sweden (2024)
- Who do we miss when screening for postpartum depression? (2021)
- Psychoneuroimmunology in the context of perinatal depression (2021)
- Inflammatory markers in women with postpartum depressive symptoms (2020)
- Maternal perinatal depressive symptoms trajectories and impact on toddler behavior (2020)
Recent publications
- Investigations of microbiota composition and neuroactive pathways in association with symptoms of stress and depression in a cohort of healthy women (2024)
- Association of Diabetes Mellitus in Pregnancy and Perinatal Depression (2024)
- Mid-pregnancy allopregnanolone levels and trajectories of perinatal depressive symptoms (2024)
- School children's perceptions about being offered the HPV vaccination (2024)
- Investigating heart rate variability measures during pregnancy as predictors of postpartum depression and anxiety: an exploratory study (2024)
All publications
Articles
- Investigations of microbiota composition and neuroactive pathways in association with symptoms of stress and depression in a cohort of healthy women (2024)
- Association of Diabetes Mellitus in Pregnancy and Perinatal Depression (2024)
- Mid-pregnancy allopregnanolone levels and trajectories of perinatal depressive symptoms (2024)
- School children's perceptions about being offered the HPV vaccination (2024)
- Investigating heart rate variability measures during pregnancy as predictors of postpartum depression and anxiety: an exploratory study (2024)
- Remission or Persistence? (2024)
- Feeling better? - Identification, interventions, and remission among women with early postpartum depressive symptoms in Sweden (2024)
- Compositional and functional differences of the vaginal microbiota of women with and without cervical dysplasia (2024)
- Inflammatory biomarkers and perinatal depression (2024)
- Interactions of Perinatal Depression versus Anxiety and Infants' Early Temperament Trajectories (2024)
- Pre-pregnancy complications-associated factors and wellbeing in early pregnancy (2023)
- Autonomic function and inflammation in pregnant women participating in a randomized controlled study of Mindfulness Based Childbirth and Parenting (2023)
- Cohort profile (2023)
- Mom2B: a study of perinatal health via smartphone application and machine learning methods (2022)
- Predicting perinatal health outcomes using smartphone-based digital phenotyping and machine learning in a prospective Swedish cohort (Mom2B) (2022)
- Longitudinal assessment of inflammatory markers in the peripartum period by depressive symptom trajectory groups (2022)
- Cohort profile (2022)
- Differentiated mental health patterns in pregnancy during COVID-19 first two waves in Sweden (2022)
- The vaginal microbiome and the risk of preterm birth (2022)
- Metabolite trajectories across the perinatal period and mental health (2022)
- Maternal prenatal depressive symptoms and toddler behavior (2022)
- Alcohol consumption habits and associations with anxiety or depressive symptoms postpartum in women with high socioeconomic status in Sweden. (2022)
- Working Memory During Late Pregnancy (2022)
- Psychotropic medication use in parents of survivors of adolescent cancer (2022)
- Importance of living arrangements and coparenting quality for young children's mental health after parental divorce (2021)
- Dysbiosis of the Human Oral Microbiome During the Menstrual Cycle and Vulnerability to the External Exposures of Smoking and Dietary Sugar. (2021)
- Who do we miss when screening for postpartum depression? (2021)
- Metabolic Profiling Indicates Diversity in the Metabolic Physiologies Associated With Maternal Postpartum Depressive Symptoms (2021)
- A MicroRNA Gene Panel Predicts the Vaginal Microbiota Composition (2021)
- Psychoneuroimmunology in the context of perinatal depression (2021)
- Living arrangements after parental separation have minimal impact on mental health at age 7 years. (2021)
- Birth order and socioeconomic disadvantage predict behavioural and emotional problems at age 3 years (2021)
- Mental Health in Schoolchildren in Joint Physical Custody (2021)
- Heart rate variability in late pregnancy (2021)
- Maternal and Infant Autonomic Nervous System Dysfunction (2021)
- DNA methylation in cord blood in association with prenatal depressive symptoms (2021)
- Family Background Characteristics and Student Achievement: (2021)
- No evidence for a placental microbiome in human pregnancies at term (2021)
- Associations Between Maternal Depression, Antidepressant Use During Pregnancy, and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes (2021)
- Migraine as a risk factor for mixed symptoms of peripartum depression and anxiety in late pregnancy (2021)
- Severe obstetric lacerations associated with postpartum depression among women with low resilience (2020)
- Inflammatory markers in women with postpartum depressive symptoms (2020)
- Vaginal microbiota and human papillomavirus infection among young Swedish women (2020)
- Maternal perinatal depressive symptoms trajectories and impact on toddler behavior (2020)
- Child living arrangements following separation and mental health of parents in Sweden (2020)
- Increased risk of mental health problems after cancer during adolescence (2020)
- Assessment of In Vitro and In Silico Protocols for Sequence-Based Characterization of the Human Vaginal Microbiome (2020)
- Characteristics of women with different perinatal depression trajectories (2020)
- Cohort profile (2019)
- Children with two homes (2019)
- "We also communicate through a book in the diaper bag"-Separated parents' ways to coparent and promote adaptation of their 1-4 year olds in equal joint physical custody (2019)
- Abstract # 3143 Inflammatory markers in postpartum depression (2019)
- Clinicians' attitudes toward standardized assessment and diagnosis within child and adolescent psychiatry (2019)
- Spring peaks and autumn troughs identified in peripheral inflammatory markers during the peripartum period (2019)
- Preschool children living in joint physical custody arrangements show less psychological symptoms than those living mostly or only with one parent (2018)
- Circulating Cathelicidin Antimicrobial Peptide LL-37 Levels in Mothers and Preterm and Term Newborn Infants. (2018)
- The Living Conditions of Children with Shared Residence – the Swedish Example (2018)
- What Can We Say Regarding Shared Parenting Arrangements for Swedish Children? (2018)
- Low levels of anti-secretory factor in placenta are associated with preterm birth and inflammation. (2018)
- School effectiveness and truancy (2018)
- National data study showed that adolescents living in poorer households and with one parent were more likely to be bullied (2017)
- Inflammatory markers in late pregnancy in association with postpartum depression-A nested case-control study. (2017)
- The preterm cervix reveals a transcriptomic signature in the presence of premature prelabor rupture of membranes. (2017)
- Self-esteem in children in joint physical custody and other living arrangements (2017)
- Why should they live more with one of us when they are children to us both? (2016)
- Psychological complaints among children in joint physical custody and other family types (2016)
- Fifty moves a year (2015)
- Childhood Experience of Parental Separation Is Associated With Labor IL-6 in Maternal Serum (2015)
- Mental health in Swedish children living in joint physical custody and their parents' life satisfaction (2014)
- Living in two homes-a Swedish national survey of wellbeing in 12 and 15 year olds with joint physical custody (2013)
- Negative emotions and cytokines in maternal and cord serum at preterm birth (2012)
- Antenatal depressive symptoms and preterm birth (2011)
- High-mobility group box protein 1 and its signalling receptors in human preterm and term cervix (2010)
- Pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines in human preterm and term cervical ripening (2010)
Conferences
- Sociodemographic inequalities in adolescents’ health-related behaviours (2016)
- Inequalities in subjective health complaints in Swedish adolescents (2016)
- Exploring salivary cortisol and recurrent pain in mid-adolescents living in two homes (2014)
- Gene Expression Pattern in Cervix during Spontaneous Preterm Labor. (2013)
- Parents’ experiences of preterm birth (2010)
- Altered Balance in Pro-Inflammatory and Anti-Inflammatory Cytokines in Preterm Cervical Ripening (2009)
Reports
