Alyssa Ailion, PhD, ABPP/CN

Assistant Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School | Pediatric Neuropsychologist | Epilepsy & Neuroimaging | Brain Network Nerd

[Alyssa Ailion, PhD, ABPP/CN @AAilion]

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
https://t.co/z2Yg8SQZeQ

[Alyssa Ailion, PhD, ABPP/CN @AAilion]

What happens to cognition after frontal lobe epilepsy surgery?

Our latest study examines long-term neuropsychological outcomes following pediatric frontal lobe epilepsy surgery and the factors that predict them.

https://t.co/M3VUvmx146
@IlaeWeb @AmEpilepsySoc

[Alyssa Ailion, PhD, ABPP/CN @AAilion]

@PERCepilepsy

[Alyssa Ailion, PhD, ABPP/CN @AAilion]

Our latest work out of the Pediatric Epilepsy Research Consortium Neuropsychology workgroup looking at the cognitive lateralization rating index & surgical variables https://t.co/qODUqjOqXD

[Pediatric Neuroscience and Cognition Laboratory @pedsneurocoglab]

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
@pedsneurocoglab
@AAilion
@PERCepilepsy
#MedTwitter

[Alyssa Ailion, PhD, ABPP/CN @AAilion]

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

[Alyssa Ailion, PhD, ABPP/CN @AAilion]

Check out our latest work reviewing language mapping with electrical stimulation!

https://t.co/f8gPsT6uzB

[Alyssa Ailion, PhD, ABPP/CN @AAilion]

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

[Alyssa Ailion, PhD, ABPP/CN @AAilion]

Clinical recommendations for conducting pediatric functional language and memory mapping during the phase I epilepsy presurgical workup https://t.co/sDrNJJnMV7

[Alyssa Ailion, PhD, ABPP/CN @AAilion]

Spreading the words for my friends in DC: Children's National is hiring neuropsychologists!

[Elmira Hassanzadeh @elmitte]

Thank you, @theASFNR, for the opportunity to present our teamwork at #ASFNR23-Boston to such a brilliant audience.

Made possible by the generous support of @RSNA R&E Foundation.

[Alyssa Ailion, PhD, ABPP/CN @AAilion]

🌟 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
#NeuropsychTwitter #neuropsychology #neurotwitter @TheAACN #neuropsych #NeuropsychTwitter #AAPdN

[Alyssa Ailion, PhD, ABPP/CN @AAilion]

Latest Pub: fMRI language laterality with and without sedation https://t.co/KO6iSU9PTY

[Alyssa Ailion, PhD, ABPP/CN @AAilion]

Very clear impact of low reimbursement rates on behavioral health care. Children in crisis must wait more than a week for an inpatient bed. https://t.co/GeODEQWIwc

[Alyssa Ailion, PhD, ABPP/CN @AAilion]

Socioeconomic inequality and children’s brain development
https://t.co/5WkjENRioB

[Alyssa Ailion, PhD, ABPP/CN @AAilion]

Latest collaborative work: A review of procedural and declarative metamemory development across childhood https://t.co/85jEdpJ3t1

[Alyssa Ailion, PhD, ABPP/CN @AAilion]

Excellent resource for teachers and schools: Epilepsy for Educators Toolkit https://t.co/Bk4tR5PEDV

[Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦 @ev_fedorenko]

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

[Alyssa Ailion, PhD, ABPP/CN @AAilion]

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

[Alexander Li Cohen @DrDrXanderLi]

#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