Alyssa Ailion, PhD, ABPP/CN
@AAilion
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Assistant Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School | Pediatric Neuropsychologist | Epilepsy & Neuroimaging | Brain Network Nerd
Boston, MA
Joined July 2020
Excited to share that one of our papers is in Epilepsia Open’s Top 10 Most-Viewed Articles of 2025!! Grateful to an amazing international team of collaborators and to the epilepsy community for the interest. #Epilepsy #Neurology #OpenAccess
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The persistence of common, heritable conditions, like epilepsy, that are associated with reduced reproductive fitness is an evolutionary paradox. Endogenous analgesic, anti-depressant, and inflamma...
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Our latest work out of the Pediatric Epilepsy Research Consortium Neuropsychology workgroup looking at the cognitive lateralization rating index & surgical variables
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Check out our recent pub: The Changing Landscape of Electrical Stimulation Language Mapping for Pediatric Epilepsy: A Literature Review and Commentary. Epilepsia https://t.co/9pEwLpDf1S
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Electrical stimulation mapping (ESM) is used to locate the brain areas supporting language directly within the human cortex to minimize the risk of functional decline following epilepsy surgery. ESM...
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We are recruiting a full-time sleep researcher at Boston Children's Hospital! Please share with anyone who you think may be interested in the position. #sleep #sleepscience @researchsleep
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Check out our latest work reviewing language mapping with electrical stimulation! https://t.co/f8gPsT6uzB
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Electrical stimulation mapping (ESM) is used to locate the brain areas supporting language directly within the human cortex to minimize the risk of functional decline following epilepsy surgery. ESM...
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Brain connections from tractography can be highly accurate—if we know where white matter pathways start, where they end, and where they do not go https://t.co/3UexfpnCgH
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Clinical recommendations for conducting pediatric functional language and memory mapping during the phase I epilepsy presurgical workup
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Spreading the words for my friends in DC: Children's National is hiring neuropsychologists!
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🌟 WE'RE HIRING NEUROPSYCHOLOGISTS! 🌟 Join our dynamic team and be a part of an organization where innovation meets excellence! Application details here: https://t.co/u9IsXWlJxZ
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Latest Pub: fMRI language laterality with and without sedation
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Very clear impact of low reimbursement rates on behavioral health care. Children in crisis must wait more than a week for an inpatient bed.
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Socioeconomic inequality and children’s brain development https://t.co/5WkjENRioB
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Latest collaborative work: A review of procedural and declarative metamemory development across childhood
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Metamemory is a component of metacognition that includes both the knowledge of factors that affect memory (i.e. declarative metamemory) and knowledge and application of factors in one’s own learnin...
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Excellent resource for teachers and schools: Epilepsy for Educators Toolkit
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Thx to the hard work of @ben_lipkin @GretaTuckute and others + @NIDCD funding, we are ready to present to you LanA (Language Atlas)—a probabilistic atlas for the lang network based on lang localizer data from >800 inds (available for both volume and surface brain spaces). 1/n
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This is an amazing opportunity to work with my brilliant colleague Alex Cohen— who is also an excellent mentor. Please help us get the word out! @amharikumar @edugganphd @CynthiaFunesPhD @DocBlock_NP #NeuropsychTwitter #neuropsychology #neurotwitter
#NeuroTwitter: Looking to hire two awesome RAs @BostonChildrens. We've got methods and data aplenty and current projects range from studying face recognition in #autism with cool fMRI protocols to #lesionnetworkmapping of aggression/agitation to real-time fMRI neurofeedback. 1/4
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Nice @AAilion study suggesting that FC reflects network plasticity in the form of adaptation and compensation, or the ability to recruit support and reallocate resources.
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