Chad M. Sylvester

This study identifies consistent clinical and neural correlates of sensory over-responsivity (SOR) across diverse child samples, showing associations with autistic traits, anxiety, and specific brain connectivity patterns.

The paper develops an age-appropriate functional reference to estimate individualized brain networks in young children, revealing early network organization and stability.

The paper uses resting-state fMRI to study subcortical network organization in neonates, children, and adults, finding that the anterior-posterior organization is present at birth but somatomotor network representations are larger in neonates.

The paper identifies parallel processing chains in association cortex using multiple functional mapping modalities, showing they are experience-driven and organized across different cytoarchitectures.

The paper uses functional MRI to map cortical areas in neonates, finding that their arrangement is individually specific and reliably identifiable.

The paper demonstrates the feasibility of precision functional imaging in infants to identify individual-specific auditory responses and their relation to brain functional networks.

This paper demonstrates that 7T MRI improves spatial resolution and data quality for functional brain mapping in infants compared to 3T MRI, enabling more reliable developmental studies.

This study parcellates the cerebral cortex in toddlers using functional connectivity and shows high reproducibility across ages, with area boundaries more similar to adults than neonates.

This paper introduces multi-echo acquisition and thermal denoising methods to improve precision functional MRI in adults, children, and newborns, showing increased signal-to-noise ratio and reliability.

This paper develops a neonatal-specific cortical parcellation based on functional connectivity, validated across multiple datasets.

The paper reveals that motor cortex contains inter-effector regions connected to the Cingulo-opercular network, alternating with effector-specific areas, suggesting a dual system for motor control and whole-body coordination.

The paper identifies distinct functional connectivity patterns in the hippocampus, showing anterior regions connect to the default mode network and posterior regions connect to the parietal memory network, supporting different cognitive processes.