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2026

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Psychology

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33623
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Citations
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in Sweden Leader Award

Overview

Sven Bölte is affiliated with the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and has a research portfolio that spans several interconnected fields in neuroscience, psychology, and medicine. Their work primarily focuses on developmental disorders, integrating clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and psychiatry.

The main fields of study addressed in their research include:

  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology
  • Medicine

Their subfields consist of:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Psychiatry and Mental Health
  • Genetics
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology

Bölte's research topics broadly cover:

  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Family and Disability Support Research
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development

Frequent co-authors include Jan K. Buitelaar, Sonya Girdler, Tony Charman, Tobias Banaschewski, and Declan Murphy.

Bölte often publishes in venues such as:

  • Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
  • Autism
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Molecular Autism
  • Scientific Reports

Recent notable papers authored by or involving Sven Bölte include:

  • "Sex and gender in neurodevelopmental conditions," 2023, Nature Reviews Neurology
  • "The World Federation of ADHD International Consensus Statement: 208 Evidence-based conclusions about the disorder," 2021, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • "Psycho-social factors associated with mental resilience in the Corona lockdown," 2021, Translational Psychiatry
  • "Early environmental risk factors for neurodevelopmental disorders - a systematic review of twin and sibling studies," 2020, Development and Psychopathology
  • "The future of General Movement Assessment: The role of computer vision and machine learning - A scoping review," 2021, Research in Developmental Disabilities

In addition to articles, Bölte has contributed to book publications, including a work titled "Trajectories in Developmental Disabilities: Infancy - Childhood - Adolescence," published by Frontiers Media in 2022.

Best Publications

  • Functional impact of global rare copy number variation in autism spectrum disorders

    Dalila Pinto;Alistair T. Pagnamenta;Lambertus Klei;Richard Anney

  • Mapping autism risk loci using genetic linkage and chromosomal rearrangements

    Peter Szatmari;Andrew D. Paterson;Lonnie Zwaigenbaum;Wendy Roberts

  • The World Federation of ADHD International Consensus Statement: 208 Evidence-based Conclusions about the Disorder

    Stephen V. Faraone;Tobias Banaschewski;David Coghill;Yi Zheng

  • Convergence of Genes and Cellular Pathways Dysregulated in Autism Spectrum Disorders

    Dalila Pinto;Elsa Delaby;Elsa Delaby;Elsa Delaby;Daniele Merico;Mafalda Barbosa

  • Premature mortality in autism spectrum disorder.

    Tatja Hirvikoski;Ellenor Mittendorfer-Rutz;Marcus Boman;Henrik Larsson

  • A genome-wide linkage and association scan reveals novel loci for autism

    Lauren A. Weiss;Lauren A. Weiss;Dan E. Arking;Mark J. Daly;Mark J. Daly;Aravinda Chakravarti

  • A full genome screen for autism with evidence for linkage to a region on chromosome 7q International Molecular Genetic Study of Autism Consortium

    Anthony Bailey;Amaia Hervas;Nicola Matthews;Sarah Palferman

  • Meta-analysis of GWAS of over 16,000 individuals with autism spectrum disorder highlights a novel locus at 10q24.32 and a significant overlap with schizophrenia

    Richard J.L. Anney;Richard J.L. Anney;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Verneri Anttila;Jakob Grove;Jakob Grove

  • A genome-wide scan for common alleles affecting risk for autism

    Richard Anney;Lambertus Klei;Dalila Pinto;Regina Regan

  • The contribution of environmental exposure to the etiology of autism spectrum disorder.

    Sven Bölte;Sonya Girdler;Peter B. Marschik;Peter B. Marschik;Peter B. Marschik

  • Assessing autistic traits: cross-cultural validation of the social responsiveness scale (SRS).

    Sven Bölte;Fritz Poustka;John N. Constantino

  • Individual common variants exert weak effects on the risk for autism spectrum disorders.

    Richard Anney;Lambertus Klei;Dalila Pinto;Dalila Pinto;Joana Almeida

  • Autism spectrum disorders: sex differences in autistic behaviour domains and coexisting psychopathology.

    Martin Holtmann;Sven Bölte;Fritz Poustka

  • Functional imbalance of visual pathways indicates alternative face processing strategies in autism

    D. Hubl;S. Bolte;S. Feineis-Matthews;H. Lanfermann

  • Eye tracking in early autism research

    Terje Falck-Ytter;Terje Falck-Ytter;Sven Bölte;Sven Bölte;Gustaf Gredebäck

  • The Child and Adolescent Twin Study in Sweden (CATSS).

    Henrik Anckarsäter;Sebastian Lundström;Linnea Kollberg;Nora Kerekes

  • Emotion recognition in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders.

    Sanna Kuusikko;Helena Haapsamo;Eira Jansson-Verkasalo;Tuula Hurtig

  • The recognition of facial affect in autistic and schizophrenic subjects and their first-degree relatives

    Sven Bölte;Fritz Poustka

  • The relation between general cognitive level and adaptive behavior domains in individuals with autism with and without co-morbid mental retardation.

    Sven Bölte;Fritz Poustka

  • The EU-AIMS Longitudinal European Autism Project (LEAP): design and methodologies to identify and validate stratification biomarkers for autism spectrum disorders

    Eva Loth;Tony Charman;Luke Mason;Julian Tillmann

  • Convergence of genes and cellular pathways dysregulated in autism spectrum disorders

    Dalila Pinto;Elsa Delaby;Daniele Merico;Mafalda Barbosa

Frequent Co-Authors

Fritz Poustka
Fritz Poustka Goethe University Frankfurt
Terje Falck-Ytter
Terje Falck-Ytter Uppsala University
Peter B. Marschik
Peter B. Marschik University of Göttingen
Sonya Girdler
Sonya Girdler Curtin University
Tony Charman
Tony Charman King's College London
Simon Baron-Cohen
Simon Baron-Cohen University of Cambridge
Jan K. Buitelaar
Jan K. Buitelaar Radboud University
Paul Lichtenstein
Paul Lichtenstein Karolinska Institute
Michael V. Lombardo
Michael V. Lombardo Italian Institute of Technology
Thomas Bourgeron
Thomas Bourgeron Université Paris Cité

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