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Medical Services

Specialties

Programs & Services

Languages

  • English

Education

Graduate School

Georgia State University

2018, Atlanta, GA

Internship

Pediatric Psychology & Neuropsychology

Children's Hospital Colorado

2018, Denver, CO

Fellowship

Children's National Hospital

Washington, DC

Professional History

Dr. Alyssa Ailion joined Boston Children’s Hospital in October 2020 as an Attending Neuropsychologist in the Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Division of Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology. She received her PhD in 2018 from Georgia State University as part of the dual degree program in Clinical Psychology, Neuropsychology, and Behavioral Neuroscience. Her master’s and dissertation work focused on brain-behavior relationships and neuroplasticity using structural neuroimaging. She then completed an APA-approved internship in pediatric neuropsychology at Children’s Hospital Colorado. Next, she completed a 2-year fellowship at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC focused on pediatric neuropsychology and functional neuroimaging. She provides neuropsychological evaluations for epilepsy patients and the surgical team, and is a member of the clinical fMRI team.

In addition to her clinical work in pediatric epilepsy, Dr. Ailion conducts research on neuroimaging and epilepsy surgical outcomes as her primary academic focus.

Publications

  1. Association of the cognitive lateralization rating Index with surgical variables of a national cohort of pediatric patients with epilepsy. Epilepsy Behav. 2025 Jul; 168:110404. View Abstract

  2. Imaging and Anesthesia Protocol Optimization in Sedated Clinical Resting-State fMRI. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2025 Feb 03; 46(2):293-301. View Abstract

  3. Effects of physical activity on cognition and psychosocial functioning in pediatric epilepsy: A systematic review. Epilepsy Behav Rep. 2024; 27:100700. View Abstract

  4. Predictive factors for seizure freedom after epilepsy surgery for pediatric low-grade tumors and focal cortical dysplasia. Epilepsy Behav Rep. 2024; 27:100680. View Abstract

  5. The changing landscape of electrical stimulation language mapping with subdural electrodes and stereoelectroencephalography for pediatric epilepsy: A literature review and commentary. Epilepsia. 2024 Jul; 65(7):1879-1898. View Abstract

  6. Clinical recommendations for conducting pediatric functional language and memory mapping during the phase I epilepsy presurgical workup. Clin Neuropsychol. 2024 Jul; 38(5):1060-1084. View Abstract

  7. Comparison of fMRI language laterality with and without sedation in pediatric epilepsy. Neuroimage Clin. 2023; 38:103448. View Abstract

  8. Leveraging expertise and optimizing clinical research: Initial success of a pediatric epilepsy surgery collaborative. Epilepsia. 2023 06; 64(6):1554-1567. View Abstract

  9. A review of procedural and declarative metamemory development across childhood. Child Neuropsychol. 2023 02; 29(2):183-212. View Abstract

  10. Behavioral phenotypes of pediatric temporal lobe epilepsy. Epilepsia. 2022 05; 63(5):1177-1188. View Abstract

  11. Functional Connectivity as a Potential Mechanism for Language Plasticity. Neurology. 2022 01 18; 98(3):e249-e259. View Abstract

  12. Functional connectivity hemispheric contrast (FC-HC): A new metric for language mapping. Neuroimage Clin. 2021; 30:102598. View Abstract

  13. Double Dissociation of Auditory Attention Span and Visual Attention in Long-Term Survivors of Childhood Cerebellar Tumor: A Deterministic Tractography Study of the Cerebellar-Frontal and the Superior Longitudinal Fasciculus Pathways. J Int Neuropsychol Soc. 2020 11; 26(10):939-953. View Abstract

  14. Neuroimaging of the component white matter connections and structures within the cerebellar-frontal pathway in posterior fossa tumor survivors. Neuroimage Clin. 2019; 23:101894. View Abstract

  15. Neurodevelopmental model of long-term outcomes of adult survivors of childhood brain tumors. Child Neuropsychol. 2019 01; 25(1):1-21. View Abstract

  16. Childhood Brain Tumors: a Systematic Review of the Structural Neuroimaging Literature. Neuropsychol Rev. 2017 Sep; 27(3):220-244. View Abstract

  17. Cerebellar Atrophy in Adult Survivors of Childhood Cerebellar Tumor. J Int Neuropsychol Soc. 2016 May; 22(5):501-11. View Abstract
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