Caroline Trumpff, PhD

Caroline Trumpff received her PhD in Psychological Sciences from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. She completed her doctoral research at the Belgian Scientific Institute of Public Health (WIV-ISP) in the Department of Epidemiology in the “Surveys, Lifestyle and Chronic Illnesses” team. Caroline is currently the Herbert H. and Ruth S. Reiner Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Picard Lab and her research aims to understand the interplay of psychological stress exposure and mitochondrial biology in humans.

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  • Picard, M., Trumpff, C., Burelle, Y. (2019). Mitochondrial Psychobiology: Foundations and Applications. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 28, 142-151.

  • Trumpff, C., Marsland, A.L., Basualto-Alarcon, C., Martin, J.L., Carroll, J.E., Sturm, G., Vincent, A.E., Mosharov, E.V., Gu, Z., Kaufman, B.A. and Picard, M. (2019). Acute psychological stress increases circulating cell-free mitochondrial DNA. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 106, 268-276. PMID: 31029929.

  • Trumpff, C., Marsland, A.L., Sloan, R.P., Kaufman B.A., Picard, M. (2019) Predictors of ccf- mtDNA reactivity to acute psychological stress identified using machine learning classifiers: a proof-of-concept. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 107, 82-92. PMID: 31112904.
  • Trumpff, C., Sturm, G., Picard, M., Foss, S., Lee, S., Feng, T., Do, C., Cardenas, A., McCormack, C., Tycko, B., Champagne, F.A., Monk, C. (2018) Added sugar intake during pregnancy: Fetal behavior, birth outcomes, and placental DNA methylation. Scientific Reports [Under review].
  • Monk, C., Lugo-Candelas, C., Trumpff, C. (2018) Prenatal Developmental Origins of Future Psychopathology: Mechanisms and Pathways. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 15, 317- 344.
  • Singh, A., Trumpff, C., Genkinger, J., Davis, A., Spann, M., Werner, E., & Monk, C. (2017). Micronutrient Dietary Intake in Latina Pregnant Adolescents and Its Association with Level of Depression, Stress, and Social Support. Nutrients, 9(11), 1212. *These authors contributed equally to this work.
  • Lain, S., Trumpff, C., Grosse, S.D., Olivieri, A., Van Vliet, G. (2017) Are lower TSH cutoffs in neonatal screening for congenital hypothyroidism warranted? A debate. European Journal of Endocrinology, EJE-17.
  • Trumpff, C., De Schepper, J., Vanderfaeillie, J., Vercruysse, N., Tafforeau, J., Van Oyen, H., Vandevijvere, S., (2016) No association between elevated thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) at birth and parent-reported problem behavior at preschool age. Frontiers in Endocrinology, 7: 161.
  • Trumpff, C., De, Schepper, Vanderfaeillie, J., Vercruysse, N., Van Oyen, H., Moreno-Reyes, R., Tafforeau, J., Vandevijvere, S, (2016) Neonatal thyroid-stimulating hormone concentration and psychomotor development at preschool age. Archives of Disease in Childhood. 101(12), 1100- 1106.
  • Trumpff, C., De Schepper, J., Vanderfaeillie, J., Vercruysse, N., Van Oyen, H., Moreno-Reyes, R., Tafforeau, J., Vanderpas, J., Vandevijvere, S., (2015) Thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) concentration at birth in Belgian neonates and cognitive development at preschool age. Nutrients, 7(11): 9018-9032.
  • Trumpff, C., Vandevijvere, S., Moreno-Reyes, R., Vanderpas, J., Tafforeau, J., Van Oyen, H., De Schepper, J. (2015) Neonatal thyroid stimulating hormone level is influenced by neonatal, maternal, and pregnancy factors, Nutrition Research, 35(11), 975-981.
  • Trumpff, C., Vanderfaeillie, J., Vercruysse, N., De Schepper, J., Tafforeau, J., Van Oyen, H., Vandevijvere, S. (2014) Association between neonatal thyroid stimulating hormone concentration and intellectual, psychomotor and psychosocial development at 4-5 years of age: tools and methods of the PSYCHOTSH study. Archives of Public Health, 72(27), 1-8.
  • Trumpff, C., De Schepper, J., Tafforeau, J., Van Oyen, H., Vanderfaeillie, J., Vandevijvere, S. (2013) Mild iodine deficiency in pregnancy in Europe and its consequences for cognitive and psychomotor development of children: A review. Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology, 27: 174-183.
  • Vandevijvere, S., Coucke, W., Vanderpas, J., Trumpff, C., Fauvart, M., Meulemans, A., Marie, S., Vincent, M.F., Schoos, R., Boemer, F. and Vanwynsberghe, T. (2012) Neonatal Thyroid- Stimulating Hormone Concentrations in Belgium: A Useful Indicator for Detecting Mild Iodine Deficiency? PLoS ONE, 7(10).
  • Trumpff, C. & Kornreich, C. (2011). Humans and drugs: a long story together [Article in french: L’humanité et les drogues. Une longue histoire commune]. Acta Psychiatrica Belgica, 111: 15-22.