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Bart Boets is a Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, KU Leuven, leading the Center for Developmental Psychiatry within the Department of Neuroscience. His research focuses on neurodevelopmental disorders, particularly autism spectrum disorder (ASD), investigating neural mechanisms of social cognition, facial expression processing, and oxytocin-based interventions. He collaborates with institutions like the Leuven Brain Institute (LBI) and Leuven Child & Youth Institute (L-C&Y).
His recent work explores neural sensitivity to faces and voices in preterm children and ASD populations using EEG, eye-tracking, and fMRI. Projects emphasize co-regulation dynamics, biobehavioral synchrony, and stress physiology in family systems. Current studies include oxytocin therapy combined with sensorimotor training for social attunement in autism.
- Collaborates with Matthijs Moerkerke, Katja Alaerts, and Jean Steyaert
- Teaches courses like Advances in Neurobiology of Psychiatric Disorders and Hot Topics in Neurobiology of Psychiatric Disorders
- Involved in clinical trials assessing oxytocin’s effects on neural processing and stress regulation in autistic children
His lab integrates multimodal methodologies (EEG, fMRI, eye-tracking) to study self- and co-regulation dynamics in vulnerable populations, with applications in preventive mental health and ecological intervention design.
