Iseult Beets is doctor in de biologische psychologie. Zij specialiseerde verder in psychofysica en neurowetenschappen. Naast onderzoek wil ze dit verder implementeren in de praktijk.
Iseult studeerde psychologie met de onderzoeksmaster cognitieve neurowetenschappen aan de Universiteit Leiden in Nederland. Zij koos deze studie bewust nadat zij in de middelbare school een boeiende documentaire over hersenen zag.
Ze leerde hersenen bestuderen met functionele magnetische resonantie tomografie (fMRI) bij Dr. Heleen Slagter in de Verenigde staten tijdens haar stage bij Professor Richard Davidson in het Waisman labo van de Universiteit Madison-Wisconsin. In het kader van emotieonderzoek bestudeerde ze geconditioneerde angst in de hersenen met behulp van fMRI. Nadien beëindigde ze een doctoraat in de experimentele psychologie aan de Universität Marburg in Duitsland. Ze deed er psychofysisch onderzoek naar de samenwerking tussen perceptie en actie en de invloed van het leren van nieuwe bewegingen (d.i. motorisch leren) op visuele perceptie.
Zij zette haar onderzoek in combinatie met fMRI graag verder en vervolgde daarom haar carrière als postdoctoraal onderzoekster aan de KU Leuven. Meer specifiek onderzocht ze plasticiteit van de hersenen bij jongeren en ouderen tijdens het leren van een fijn motorische taak met behulp van meerdere MRI technieken op het UZ Gasthuisberg te Leuven. Haar studies zijn gepubliceerd in gerenommeerde internationale wetenschappelijke tijdschriften (zie hieronder – neem contact op als u interesse heeft in een kopie van een artikel).
Het maakt dat Iseult beschikt over een uitgebreide kennis van hersenfuncties, -structuren en netwerken en de correcte methode om deze te onderzoeken. Tijdens haar onderzoek kwam ze onder de indruk van het leervermogen van de hersenen. Dit voedde haar wens zelf hersenen te trainen. Ze volgde daarvoor de opleiding neurofeedback bij een diagnose ADHD bij Dr. Werner Vandenbergh in Centrum Vigilant (Lubbeek) en kwam in contact met Hannelore.
De praktijk en plannen van Lilid inspireerden Iseult om bij te dragen aan de recente ontwikkelingen rond hersenonderzoek en –behandeling in de klinische praktijk. Sindsdien verdiept ze zich alle dagen in de science en science fiction van hersendiagnostiek met QEEG (en ERP). Iseult is tevens bedreven in 3D Loreta Z neurofeedback en ondersteunt dit met oplossingsgerichte therapiegesprekken.
Zij volgt momenteel een opleiding voor psychotherapie aan het National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine van 4ECTS per maand en zal dit jaar enkele cursussen volgen aan het Korzybski instituut om zich te verdiepen in relatie- en hypnotherapie.
Ze staat ook in voor verschillende wetenschappelijke onderzoeken in samenwerking met de medische en academische wereld en is vrijwillig medewerkster aan de KU Leuven om het onderzoek te kunnen verwezenlijken.
Doctor in neurowetenschappen
Vrijwillig medewerker KUL
Socionics / MBTI profiel: ILEne / ENTP
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Publicaties in internationale wetenschappelijke vaktijdschriften
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Solesio-Joffre E, Beets IAM, Woolley DG, Swinnen SP. (in preparation) Resting state functional connectivity changes induced by bimanual coordination performance and learning.
Adab HZ*, Chalavi S*, Beets IAM, Gooijers J, Leunissen I, Cheval B, Collier Q, Jeurissen B, Sijbers J, Swinnen SP, Boisgontier MP. (in preparation). White matter microstructural organization of interhemispheric pathways predict different stages of bimanual coordination learning in young and older adults. *shared first-authors
Monteiro TS, Beets IAM, Boisgontier MP, Gooijers J, Pauwels L, Chalavi S, King B, Albouy G, Swinnen SP. (accepted). Relative cortico-subcortical shift in brain activity but preserved training-induced neural modulation in older adults during bimanual motor learning. Neurobiology of Aging. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2017.06.004
Chalavi S, Adab HZ, Pauwels L, Beets IAM, van Ruitenbeek P, Boisgontier MP, Santos Monteiro T, Maes C, Sunaert S, Swinnen SP. (2016). Anatomy of subcortical structures predicts age-related differences in skill acquisition. Cerebral Cortex: doi:10.1093/cercor/bhw382.
Gooijers J, Beets IAM, Albouy G, Beeckmans K, Michiels K, Sunaert S, Swinnen SP. (2016) Movement preparation and execution: differential functional activation patterns after traumatic brain injury. Brain 139: 2469-2485. doi: 10.1093/brain/aww177. Epub 2016 Jul 19.
Pauwels L, Vancleef K, Swinnen SP, Beets IAM. (2015) Challenge to promote change: both young and older adults benefit from contextual interference. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2015.00157
Boisgontier MP, Van Halewyck F, Corporaal S, Willacker L, Van den Bergh V, Beets IAM, Levin O, Swinnen SP. (2014). Vision of the active limb impairs bimanual motor tracking in young and older adults. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience 6:320. 10.3389/fnagi.2014.00320.
Pauwels L, Swinnen SP, Beets IAM. (2014). Contextual interference in complex bimanual learning leads to better skill persistence. PloS ONE: doi 10.1371/journal.pone.0100906
Beets IAM, Gooijers J, Boisgontier MP, Pauwels L, Coxon JP, Wittenberg G, Swinnen, SP. (2015). Reduced neural differentiation between feedback conditions after training bimanual coordination with and without augmented visual feedback. Cerebral Cortex, 25 (7): 1958-1969. doi 10.1093/cercor/bhu005.
Solesio-Joffre E, Serbruyns L, Woolley DG, Mantini D, Beets IAM, Swinnen SP. (2014). Aging effects on the resting state motor network and interlimb coordination. Human Brain Mapping 35 (8): 3945-3961. doi: 10.1002/hbm.22450.
Boisgontier MP, Beets IAM, Duysens J, Nieuwboer A, Krampe RT, Swinnen SP. (2013). Age-related differences in attentional cost associated with postural dual tasks: increased recruitment of generic cognitive resources in older adults. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 37 (8): 1824-1837.
Sisti HM, Geurts M, Gooijers J, Heitger MH, Caeyenberghs K, Beets IAM, Serbruyns L, Leemans A, Swinnen SP. (2012). Microstructural organization of corpus callosum projections to prefrontal cortex predicts bimanual motor learning. Learning and Memory, 19 (8): 351-357.
Beets IAM, Macé M, Meesen RLJ, Cuypers K, Levin O, Swinnen SP. (2012). Active versus passive training of a complex bimanual task: Is prescriptive proprioceptive information sufficient for inducing motor learning? PLoS ONE 7(5): e37687. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0037687.
Sisti HM, Gooijers J, Geurts M, Clerckx R, Coxon JP, Heitger MH, Caeyenberghs K, Beets IAM, Serbruyns L, Swinnen SP. (2011). Testing multiple coordination constraints with a novel bimanual visuomotor task. PLoS ONE, 6 (8): e23619.
Beets IAM*, ’t Hart BM*, Rösler F, Henriques DYP, Einhäuser W, Fiehler K. (2010). Online action-to-perception transfer: only percept-dependent action affects perception. Vision Research, 50: 2633-2641. *contributed equally
Beets IAM, Rösler F, Fiehler K. (2010). Non-visual motor learning improves visual motion perception: Evidence from violating the two-thirds power law. Journal of Neurophysiology, 104:1612-1624.
Slagter HA, Johnstone T, Beets IAM, Davidson RJ. (2010). Neural competition for conscious representation across time: An fMRI study. PLoS ONE 5(5): doi 10.1371/journal.pone.0010556.
Peer-reviewed abstracts op internationale wetenschappelijke congressen
Gooijers J, Beets IAM, Beeckmans K, Michiels K, Swinnen SP. (2015). TBI-induced alterations in brain activity: reduced neural activation during movement planning and increased activation during execution. 11th National Congress of the Belgian Society for Neuroscience. Mons, Belgium. http://www.frontiersin.org/myfrontiers/events/abstractdetails.aspx?abs_doi=10.3389/conf.fnins.2015.89.00081.
Beets IAM, Coxon J, Gooijers J, Swinnen SP. (2014). Functional plasticity in young and older adults due to learning a new bimanual coordination task. Human Brain Mapping, Hamburg, Germany. (Poster)
Beets IAM, Coxon J, Gooijers J, Swinnen SP. (2014). Functional plasticity in young and older adults due to learning a new bimanual coordination task. Interuniversity Attraction Poles (IUAP), Leuven, Belgium. (Poster)
Beets IAM, Coxon J, Gooijers J, Swinnen SP. (2014). Reduced neural differentiation between feedback conditions after bimanual coordination training with and without augmented visual feedback in young and older adults. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen, Gießen, Germany. (Invited Talk)
Gooijers J, Beets IAM, Swinnen SP. (2013). Brain activation patterns for preparing and performing internally and externally guided bimanual movements in Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). 43rd Society for Neuroscience (SfN). San Diego, CA. USA. (Poster)
Beets IAM, Coxon J, Gooijers J, Swinnen SP. (2013). Reduced neural differentiation between feedback conditions after training bimanual coordination with and without augmented visual feedback in Young and Elderly. Interuniversity Attraction Poles (IUAP) meeting. Leuven, Belgium. (Invited Talk)
Beets IAM, Coxon J, Gooijers J, Swinnen SP. (2013). Neural activation changes during acquisition of a bimanual tracking task under augmented and nonaugmented feedback conditions in elderly. Aging and Cognition. Dortmund, Germany. (Invited Talk)
Solesio-Jofre E, Serbruyns L, Woolley DG, Beets IAM, Mantini D, Swinnen SP. (2013). Age effects on the functional connectivity of the motor network during the resting state and motor control abilities. Aging and Cognition. Dortmund, Germany. (Invited Talk)
Beets IAM, Gooijers J, Coxon J, Swinnen SP. (2012). Neural activation changes during acquisition of a bimanual tracking task under augmented and nonaugmented feedback conditions. 42nd Society for Neuroscience (SfN). New Orleans, LA. USA. (Poster)
Beets IAM, Gooijers J, Coxon J, Swinnen SP. (2012). Neural activation changes before and after training a bimanual tracking task under augmented and nonaugmented feedback conditions. New strategies to optimize acquisition and consolidation of motor skills. A satellite event of the FENS Forum 2012. Barcelona, Spain. (Poster)
Fiehler K, Beets IAM, ’t Hart BM, Henriques DYP, Einhäuser W. (2011). Limb movements shape visual motion perception of ambiguous stimuli. 41st Society for Neuroscience (SfN). Washington (DC), USA. (Poster)
Beets IAM, Macé M, Meesen R, Cuypers K, Levin O, Swinnen SP. (2011). Active vs. Passive learning of a complex bimanual motor skill: can internal models be formed with proprioceptive training and visual feedback only? Plasticity in the brain: Perceptual, spatial and motor learning workshop. KU Leuven, Belgium. (Poster)
Fiehler K, ’t Hart BM, Beets IAM, Henriques DYP, Einhäuser W. (2010). The impact of action on perception: Evidence from ambiguous visual stimuli. 33rd European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP). Lausanne, Switzerland. (Poster)
Beets IAM, Rösler F, Fiehler K. (2009). Passive and active training of a new bimanual coordination skill. Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, USA. (Poster)
Beets IAM, Rösler F, Fiehler K. (2009). Non-visual motor learning enhances visual motion perception: Evidence from violating the two-thirds power law. Symposium University of Potsdam and Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China. (Poster)
Beets IAM, Rösler F, Fiehler K. (2009). Non-visual motor learning enhances visual motion perception: Evidence from violating the two-thirds power law. Progress in Motor Control, Marseille, France. (Poster)
Beets IAM, Fiehler K, Rösler F. (2008). Effects of motor learning on visual elliptic speed-pattern perception. Neurowissenschaftliche Nachwuchskonferenz, Ellwangen, Germany. (Poster)
Beets IAM, Slagter HA, Johnstone T, Kelly B, Davidson RJ. (2008). Effects of threat-evoked anxiety on attention and conscious perception. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen, Marburg, Germany. (Poster)
Slagter HA, Johnstone T, Beets IAM, & Davidson RJ. (2008). Conscious perception in the attentional blink, an fMRI study. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, USA. (Poster)
Slagter HA, Beets IAM, Johnstone T, Shackman AJ, Van Reekum CM, Davidson RJ. (2007). Threat-evoked anxiety modulates attentional resource distribution. Poster presented at the Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting. New York, NY, USA. (Poster)