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Lyssa de Vries serves as a Lecturer at KU Leuven's Faculty of Medicine within the Department of Neuroscience and the Developmental Psychiatry unit (ON5 Herestraat 49 - bus 1029, 3000 Leuven). Her academic profile centers on autism spectrum disorder (ASD) research in early development, utilizing advanced methodologies including pupillometry and eye-tracking.
Dr. de Vries completed her PhD thesis Illuminating Infant Development: The Autonomic Nervous System and Autism in 2023 under Professor Steyaert's supervision. Her research interests span Autism Spectrum Disorder, Child Development, Psychiatry, Neuroscience, Sensory Processing, and Language Acquisition, with emphasis on biomarker identification and developmental trajectories in infants at elevated autism likelihood.
Her 10 recent publications (2022-2025) reveal cohesive research themes: neural markers for autism prediction (eye-gaze sensitivity, attention disengagement), sensory-language-social cascades, autonomic nervous system development, and parent-child dynamics. Key contributions include demonstrating that neural responses to eye gaze lack predictive value for later autism diagnosis and establishing QTc prolongation risks from antipsychotics in pediatric psychiatry.
As an active member of the TIARA research consortium, she collaborates extensively with Warreyn, Roeyers, Noens, and Steyaert across longitudinal studies. Dr. de Vries teaches child and adolescent psychiatry courses (E0J39A, E06S6B, E03R7B, E0BW8A, E0CC2A, E0AN0A, E0AX6A, E0CH0A), focusing on scientific advancements and clinical problem-solving in developmental psychiatry.