Publications

2024

Guard M, Labonte AK, Mendoza M, Myers MJ, Duncan M, Drysdale AT, Mukherji E, Rahman T, Tandon M, Kelly JC, Cooke E, Rogers CE, Lenze S, Sylvester CM. Brexanolone Treatment in a Real-World Patient Population: A Case Series and Pilot Feasibility Study of Precision Neuroimaging. J Clin Psychopharmacol. 2024 May-Jun 01;44(3):240-249. doi: 10.1097/JCP.0000000000001859. Epub 2024 Mar 28.PMID: 385514542CiteShare

Camacho MC, Balser DH, Furtado EJ, Rogers CE, Schwarzlose RF, Sylvester CM, Barch DM. Higher Intersubject Variability in Neural Response to Narrative Social Stimuli Among Youth With Higher Social Anxiety. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2024 May;63(5):549-560. doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2023.08.020. Epub 2023 Dec 7.PMID: 380708723CiteShare

Perino MT, Sylvester CM, Rogers CE, Luby JL, Barch DM. Neighborhood Resource Deprivation as a Predictor of Bullying Perpetration and Resource-Driven Conduct Symptoms. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2024 Mar 22:S0890-8567(24)00137-0. doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2024.03.008. Online ahead of print.PMID: 385226144CiteShare

Perino MT, Harper-Lednicky JC, Vogel AC, Sylvester CM, Barch DM, Luby JL. Social anxiety moderates the association between adolescent irritability and bully perpetration. Dev Psychopathol. 2024 Mar 13:1-8. doi: 10.1017/S0954579424000439. Online ahead of print.PMID: 384760475CiteShare

Myers MJ, Labonte AK, Gordon EM, Laumann TO, Tu JC, Wheelock MD, Nielsen AN, Schwarzlose RF, Camacho MC, Alexopoulos D, Warner BB, Raghuraman N, Luby JL, Barch DM, Fair DA, Petersen SE, Rogers CE, Smyser CD, Sylvester CM. Functional parcellation of the neonatal cortical surface.Cereb Cortex. 2024 Jan 31;34(2):bhae047. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhae047.PMID: 383722926CiteShare

Sylvester CM, Luby JL, Pine DS.Novel mechanism-based treatments for pediatric anxiety and depressive disorders.Neuropsychopharmacology. 2024 Jan;49(1):262-275. doi: 10.1038/s41386-023-01709-x. Epub 2023 Aug 22.PMID: 37608220 Review.7CiteShare

2023

Schwarzlose RF, Filippi CA, Myers MJ, Harper J, Camacho MC, Smyser TA, Rogers CE, Shimony JS, Warner BB, Luby JL, Barch DM, Pine DS, Smyser CD, Fox NA, Sylvester CM.Neonatal neural responses to novelty related to behavioral inhibition at 1 year.Dev Psychol. 2023 Nov 16:10.1037/dev0001654. doi: 10.1037/dev0001654. Online ahead of print.PMID: 379718288CiteShare

Myers MJ, Labonte AK, Gordon EM, Laumann TO, Tu JC, Wheelock MD, Nielsen AN, Schwarzlose R, Camacho MC, Warner BB, Raghuraman N, Luby JL, Barch DM, Fair DA, Petersen SE, Rogers CE, Smyser CD, Sylvester CM. Functional parcellation of the neonatal brain. bioRxiv [Preprint]. 2023 Nov 11:2023.11.10.566629. doi: 10.1101/2023.11.10.566629.PMID: 37986902 Free PMC article. Updated. Preprint.

Drysdale AT, Myers MJ, Harper JC, Guard M, Manhart M, Yu Q, Perino MT, Luby JL, Barch DM, Pine DS, Sylvester CM. A Novel Cognitive Training Program Targets Stimulus-Driven Attention to Alter Symptoms, Behavior, and Neural Circuitry in Pediatric Anxiety Disorders: Pilot Clinical Trial. J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol. 2023 Sep 5. doi: 10.1089/cap.2023.0020. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37669021.

Camacho MC, Nielsen AN, Balser D, Furtado E, Steinberger DC, Fruchtman L, Culver JP, Sylvester CM, Barch DM. Author Correction: Large-scale encoding of emotion concepts becomes increasingly similar between individuals from childhood to adolescence. Nat Neurosci. 2023 Sep;26(9):1651. doi: 10.1038/s41593-023-01420-6. Erratum for: Nat Neurosci. 2023 Jul;26(7):1256-1266. PMID: 37501004.

Sylvester CM, Luby JL, Pine DS. Novel mechanism-based treatments for pediatric anxiety and depressive disorders. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2023 Aug 22. doi: 10.1038/s41386-023-01709-x. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37608220.

Camacho MC, Nielsen AN, Balser D, Furtado E, Steinberger DC, Fruchtman L, Culver JP, Sylvester CM, Barch DM. Large-scale encoding of emotion concepts becomes increasingly similar between individuals from childhood to adolescence. Nat Neurosci. 2023 Jul;26(7):1256-1266. doi: 10.1038/s41593-023-01358-9. Epub 2023 Jun 8. Erratum in: Nat Neurosci. 2023 Sep;26(9):1651. PMID: 37291338.

Nielsen AN, Graham AM, Sylvester CM. Baby Brains at Work: How Task-Based Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Can Illuminate the Early Emergence of Psychiatric Risk. Biol Psychiatry. 2023 May 15;93(10):880-892. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2023.01.010. Epub 2023 Jan 20. PMID: 36935330; PMCID: PMC10149573.

Gordon EM, Chauvin RJ, Van AN, Rajesh A, Nielsen A, Newbold DJ, Lynch CJ, Seider NA, Krimmel SR, Scheidter KM, Monk J, Miller RL, Metoki A, Montez DF, Zheng A, Elbau I, Madison T, Nishino T, Myers MJ, Kaplan S, Badke D’Andrea C, Demeter DV, Feigelis M, Ramirez JSB, Xu T, Barch DM, Smyser CD, Rogers CE, Zimmermann J, Botteron KN, Pruett JR, Willie JT, Brunner P, Shimony JS, Kay BP, Marek S, Norris SA, Gratton C, Sylvester CM, Power JD, Liston C, Greene DJ, Roland JL, Petersen SE, Raichle ME, Laumann TO, Fair DA, Dosenbach NUF. A somato-cognitive action network alternates with effector regions in motor cortex. Nature. 2023 May;617(7960):351-359. doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-05964-2. Epub 2023 Apr 19. PMID: 37076628; PMCID: PMC10172144.

Nielsen AN, Kaplan S, Meyer D, Alexopoulos D, Kenley JK, Smyser TA, Wakschlag LS, Norton ES, Raghuraman N, Warner BB, Shimony JS, Luby JL, Neil JJ, Petersen SE, Barch DM, Rogers CE, Sylvester CM, Smyser CD. Maturation of large-scale brain systems over the first month of life. Cereb Cortex. 2023 Mar 10;33(6):2788-2803. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhac242. PMID: 35750056; PMCID: PMC10016041.

Groenewold NA, Bas-Hoogendam JM, Amod AR, Laansma MA, Van Velzen LS, Aghajani M, Hilbert K, Oh H, Salas R, Jackowski AP, Pan PM, Salum GA, Blair JR, Blair KS, Hirsch J, Pantazatos SP, Schneier FR, Talati A, Roelofs K, Volman I, Blanco-Hinojo L, Cardoner N, Pujol J, Beesdo-Baum K, Ching CRK, Thomopoulos SI, Jansen A, Kircher T, Krug A, Nenadić I, Stein F, Dannlowski U, Grotegerd D, Lemke H, Meinert S, Winter A, Erb M, Kreifelts B, Gong Q, Lui S, Zhu F, Mwangi B, Soares JC, Wu MJ, Bayram A, Canli M, Tükel R, Westenberg PM, Heeren A, Cremers HR, Hofmann D, Straube T, Doruyter AGG, Lochner C, Peterburs J, Van Tol MJ, Gur RE, Kaczkurkin AN, Larsen B, Satterthwaite TD, Filippi CA, Gold AL, Harrewijn A, Zugman A, Bülow R, Grabe HJ, Völzke H, Wittfeld K, Böhnlein J, Dohm K, Kugel H, Schrammen E, Zwanzger P, Leehr EJ, Sindermann L, Ball TM, Fonzo GA, Paulus MP, Simmons A, Stein MB, Klumpp H, Phan KL, Furmark T, Månsson KNT, Manzouri A, Avery SN, Blackford JU, Clauss JA, Feola B, Harper JC, Sylvester CM, Lueken U, Veltman DJ, Winkler AM, Jahanshad N, Pine DS, Thompson PM, Stein DJ, Van der Wee NJA. Volume of subcortical brain regions in social anxiety disorder: mega-analytic results from 37 samples in the ENIGMA-Anxiety Working Group. Mol Psychiatry. 2023 Mar;28(3):1079-1089. doi: 10.1038/s41380-022-01933-9. Epub 2023 Jan 19. PMID: 36653677.

Sylvester CM, Kaplan S, Myers MJ, Gordon EM, Schwarzlose RF, Alexopoulos D, Nielsen AN, Kenley JK, Meyer D, Yu Q, Graham AM, Fair DA, Warner BB, Barch DM, Rogers CE, Luby JL, Petersen SE, Smyser CD. Network-specific selectivity of functional connections in the neonatal brain. Cereb Cortex. 2023 Feb 20;33(5):2200-2214. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhac202. PMID: 35595540; PMCID: PMC9977389.

2022

Baumel WT, Lu L, Huang X, Drysdale AT, Sweeny JA, Gong Q, Sylvester CM, Strawn JR.Biomark Neuropsychiatry. 2022 Jun;6:100052. doi: 10.1016/j.bionps.2022.100052. Epub 2022 Apr 22.PMID: 35756886

Sylvester CM, Kaplan S, Myers MJ, Gordon EM, Schwarzlose RF, Alexopoulos D, Nielsen AN, Kenley JK, Meyer D, Yu Q, Graham AM, Fair DA, Warner BB, Barch DM, Rogers CE, Luby JL, Petersen SE, Smyser CD.Cereb Cortex. 2022 May 21:bhac202. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhac202. Online ahead of print.PMID: 35595540

2021

Perino, M. T., Myers, M. J., Wheelock, M. D., Yu, Q., Harper, J. C., Manhart, M. F., Gordon, E. M., Eggebrecht, A. T., Pine, D. S., Barch, D. M., Luby, J. L., & Sylvester, C. M. (2021). Whole-brain resting-state functional connectivity patterns associated with pediatric anxiety and involuntary attention capture. Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science. Published. [PDF]

Sylvester, C. M., Myers, M. J., Perino, M. T., Kaplan, S., Kenley, J. K., Smyser, T. A., Warner, B. B., Barch, D. M., Pine, D. S., Luby, J. L., Rogers, C. E., & Smyser, C. D. (2021). Neonatal Brain Response to Deviant Auditory Stimuli and Relation to Maternal Trait Anxiety. American Journal of Psychiatry, appi.ajp.2020.2. PMID: 33900811. [PDF]

Sylvester, C. M., & Pine, D. S. (2021). Pediatric Anxiety Disorders: Insights From Basic Neuroscience, Development, and Clinical Research. Biological Psychiatry, 89(7), 638–640. PMID: 33706867. [PDF]

Perino, M. T., Yu, Q., Myers, M. J., Harper, J. C., Baumel, W. T., Petersen, S. E., Barch, D. M., Luby, J. L., & Sylvester, C. M. (2021). Attention Alterations in Pediatric Anxiety: Evidence From Behavior and Neuroimaging. Biological Psychiatry, 89(7), 726–734. [PDF]

Lenze, E. J., Nicol, G. E., Barbour, D. L., Kannampallil, T., Wong, A. W., Piccirillo, J., Drysdale, A. T., Sylvester, C. M., Haddad, R., Miller, J. P., Low, C. A., Lenze, S. N., Freedland, K. E., & Rodebaugh, T. L. (2021). Precision clinical trials: a framework for getting to precision medicine for neurobehavioural disorders. Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, 46(1), E97–E110. [PDF]

2020

Filippi, C. A., Ravi, S., Bracy, M., Winkler, A., Sylvester, C. M., Pine, D. S., & Fox, N. A. (2020). Amygdala Functional Connectivity and Negative Reactive Temperament at Age 4 Months. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. Published. PMID: 33385507. [PDF]

Bas‐Hoogendam, J. M., Groenewold, N. A., Aghajani, M., Freitag, G. F., Harrewijn, A., Hilbert, K., Jahanshad, N., Thomopoulos, S. I., Thompson, P. M., Veltman, D. J., Winkler, A. M., Lueken, U., Pine, D. S., Wee, N. J. A., Stein, D. J., Agosta, F., ÅHs, F., An, I., Alberton, B. A. V., . . . Zwiebel, H. L. (2020). ENIGMA‐anxiety working group: Rationale for and organization of large‐scale neuroimaging studies of anxiety disorders. Human Brain Mapping. Published. [PDF]

Ramphal, B., Whalen, D. J., Kenley, J. K., Yu, Q., Smyser, C. D., Rogers, C. E., & Sylvester, C. M. (2020). Brain connectivity and socioeconomic status at birth and externalizing symptoms at age 2 years. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 45, 100811. [PDF]

Zugman, A., Harrewijn, A., Cardinale, E. M., Zwiebel, H., Freitag, G. F., Werwath, K. E., Bas‐Hoogendam, J. M., Groenewold, N. A., Aghajani, M., Hilbert, K., Cardoner, N., Porta‐Casteràs, D., Gosnell, S., Salas, R., Blair, K. S., Blair, J. R., Hammoud, M. Z., Milad, M., Burkhouse, K., . . . Winkler, A. M. (2020). Mega‐analysis methods in ENIGMA : The experience of the generalized anxiety disorder working group. Human Brain Mapping. Published. [PDF]

Gilbert, K., Perino, M. T., Myers, M. J., & Sylvester, C. M. (2020). Overcontrol and neural response to errors in pediatric anxiety disorders. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 72, 102224. PMID 32289747. [PDF]

Sylvester, C. M., Yu, Q., Srivastava, A. B., Marek, S., Zheng, A., Alexopoulos, D., Smyser, C. D., Shimony, J. S., Ortega, M., Dierker, D. L., Patel, G. H., Nelson, S. M., Gilmore, A. W., McDermott, K. B., Berg, J. J., Drysdale, A. T., Perino, M. T., Snyder, A. Z., Raut, R. V., . . . Dosenbach, N. U. F. (2020). Individual-specific functional connectivity of the amygdala: A substrate for precision psychiatry. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(7), 3808–3818. PMID: 32015137. [PDF]

Sylvester, C. M. (2020). Editorial: Several Roads Lead to Anxiety. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 59(6), 703–704. PMID: 31628983. [PDF]

Castelbaum, L., Sylvester, C. M., Zhang, Y., Yu, Q., & Constantino, J. N. (2020). On the Nature of Monozygotic Twin Concordance and Discordance for Autistic Trait Severity: A Quantitative Analysis. Behavior Genetics, 50(4), 263–272. Epub 2019 Dec 18. [PDF]

2018

Sylvester, C. M. (2018). Brain Games to Reduce Anxiety in High-Risk Children. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 57(2), 80–81. PMID: 29413151. [PDF]

Sylvester, C. M., Smyser, C. D., Smyser, T., Kenley, J., Ackerman, J. J., Shimony, J. S., Petersen, S. E., & Rogers, C. E. (2018). Cortical Functional Connectivity Evident After Birth and Behavioral Inhibition at Age 2. American Journal of Psychiatry, 175(2), 180–187. PMID 28774192. [PDF]

2017

Sylvester, C. M., Whalen, D. J., Belden, A. C., Sanchez, S. L., Luby, J. L., & Barch, D. M. (2017). Shyness and Trajectories of Functional Network Connectivity Over Early Adolescence. Child Development, 89(3), 734–745. PMID: 29222816. [PDF]

Whalen, D. J., Sylvester, C. M., & Luby, J. L. (2017). Depression and Anxiety in Preschoolers. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 26(3), 503–522. PMID: 28577606. [PDF]

Kertz, S. J., Sylvester, C., Tillman, R., & Luby, J. L. (2017). Latent Class Profiles of Anxiety Symptom Trajectories From Preschool Through School Age. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, 48(2), 316–331. PMID: 28318338. [PDF]

Meehan, T. P., Bressler, S. L., Tang, W., Astafiev, S. V., Sylvester, C. M., Shulman, G. L., & Corbetta, M. (2017). Top-down cortical interactions in visuospatial attention. Brain Structure and Function, 222(7), 3127–3145. PMID: 28321551. [PDF]

Rogers, C. E., Sylvester, C. M., Mintz, C., Kenley, J. K., Shimony, J. S., Barch, D. M., & Smyser, C. D. (2017). Neonatal Amygdala Functional Connectivity at Rest in Healthy and Preterm Infants and Early Internalizing Symptoms. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 56(2), 157–166. PMID: 28117062. PMCID: PMC5302247. [PDF]

2016

Sylvester, C. M., Petersen, S. E., Luby, J. L., & Barch, D. M. (2016). Face processing in adolescents with positive and negative threat bias. Psychological Medicine, 47(5), 800–809. PMID: 27873557. [PDF]

Sylvester, C. M., Barch, D. M., Harms, M. P., Belden, A. C., Oakberg, T. J., Gold, A. L., White, L. K., Benson, B. E., Troller-Renfree, S., Degnan, K. A., Henderson, H. A., Luby, J. L., Fox, N. A., & Pine, D. S. (2016). Early Childhood Behavioral Inhibition Predicts Cortical Thickness in Adulthood. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 55(2), 122–129.e1. PMID: 26802779. PMCID: PMC4724382. [PDF]

Barch, D., Pagliaccio, D., Belden, A., Harms, M. P., Gaffrey, M., Sylvester, C. M., Tillman, R., & Luby, J. (2016). Effect of Hippocampal and Amygdala Connectivity on the Relationship Between Preschool Poverty and School-Age Depression. American Journal of Psychiatry, 173(6), 625–634. PMID 26771739. PMCID: PMC4932860. [PDF]

2015

Sylvester, C. M., Hudziak, J. J., Gaffrey, M. S., Barch, D. M., & Luby, J. L. (2015). Stimulus-Driven Attention, Threat Bias, and Sad Bias in Youth with a History of an Anxiety Disorder or Depression. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 44(2), 219–231. PMCID: PMC4547922. [PDF]

2014

Rogers, C. E., Barch, D. M., Sylvester, C. M., Pagliaccio, D., Harms, M. P., Botteron, K. N., & Luby, J. L. (2014). Altered Gray Matter Volume and School Age Anxiety in Children Born Late Preterm. The Journal of Pediatrics, 165(5), 928–935. PMID 25108541. PMCID: PMC4252475. [PDF]

2013

Sylvester, C. M., Barch, D. M., Corbetta, M., Power, J. D., Schlaggar, B. L., & Luby, J. L. (2013). Resting State Functional Connectivity of the Ventral Attention Network in Children With a History of Depression or Anxiety. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 52(12), 1326–1336.e5. PMID 24290465. PMCID: PMC3918493. [PDF]

2012

Sylvester, C., Corbetta, M., Raichle, M., Rodebaugh, T., Schlaggar, B., Sheline, Y., Zorumski, C., & Lenze, E. (2012). Functional network dysfunction in anxiety and anxiety disorders. Trends in Neurosciences, 35(9), 527–535. PMID 22658924 [PDF]

Tang, W., Bressler, S. L., Sylvester, C. M., Shulman, G. L., & Corbetta, M. (2012). Measuring Granger Causality between Cortical Regions from Voxelwise fMRI BOLD Signals with LASSO. PLoS Computational Biology, 8(5), e1002513. PMID 22654651 [PDF]

2009

Sylvester, C. M., Shulman, G. L., Jack, A. I., & Corbetta, M. (2009). Anticipatory and Stimulus-Evoked Blood Oxygenation Level-Dependent Modulations Related to Spatial Attention Reflect a Common Additive Signal. Journal of Neuroscience, 29(34), 10671–10682. PMID: 19710319 [PDF]

2008

Bressler, S. L., Tang, W., Sylvester, C. M., Shulman, G. L., & Corbetta, M. (2008). Top-Down Control of Human Visual Cortex by Frontal and Parietal Cortex in Anticipatory Visual Spatial Attention. Journal of Neuroscience, 28(40), 10056–10061. PMID: 18829963 [PDF]

Sylvester, C. M., Jack, A. I., Corbetta, M., & Shulman, G. L. (2008). Anticipatory Suppression of Nonattended Locations in Visual Cortex Marks Target Location and Predicts Perception. Journal of Neuroscience, 28(26), 6549–6556. PMID: 18579728 [PDF]

Sestieri, C., Sylvester, C. M., Jack, A. I., d’Avossa, G., Shulman, G. L., & Corbetta, M. (2008). Independence of Anticipatory Signals for Spatial Attention From Number of Nontarget Stimuli in the Visual Field. Journal of Neurophysiology, 100(2), 829–838. PMID: 18550727. [PDF]

2007

Sylvester, C. M., Shulman, G. L., Jack, A. I., & Corbetta, M. (2007). Asymmetry of Anticipatory Activity in Visual Cortex Predicts the Locus of Attention and Perception. Journal of Neuroscience, 27(52), 14424–14433. https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.3759-07.2007 PMID: 18160650 [PDF]

2006

Sylvester, C. M., D’Avossa, G., & Corbetta, M. (2006). Models of human visual attention should consider trial-by-trial variability in preparatory neural signals. Neural Networks, 19(9), 1447–1449. PMID: 17045781 [PDF]

Jack, A. I., Sylvester, C. M., & Corbetta, M. (2006). Losing our Brainless Minds: How Neuroimaging Informs Cognition. Cortex, 42(3), 418–421. PMID: 16771052 [PDF]

2002

Sylvester, C., Krout, K., & Loewy, A. (2002). Suprachiasmatic nucleus projection to the medial prefrontal cortex: a viral transneuronal tracing study. Neuroscience, 114(4), 1071–1080. PMID: 12379260 [PDF]

*The first two authors contributed equally, and order was decided by a coin toss.