Alyssa Labonte

Program: Neurosciences

Current advisor: Chad M Sylvester, MD, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Missouri-Columbia, 2016

Enrollment year: 2021

Research summary
My research focuses on utilizing precision functional MRI methods to understand functional brain maturation in human neonates.

Graduate publications
Tu JC, Myers MJ, Li W, Li J, Wang X, Dierker D, Day TKM, Snyder A, Latham A, Kenley JK, Sobolewski CM, Wang Y, Labonte AK, Feczko E, Kardan O, Moore LA, Sylvester CM, Fair DA, Elison JT, Warner BB, Barch DM, Rogers CE, Luby JL, Smyser CD, Gordon EM, Laumann TO, Eggebrecht AT, Wheelock MD. 2025 The generalizability of cortical area parcellations across early childhood. Cereb Cortex, 35(5):bhaf116. PMCID:

Camacho MC, Schwarzlose RF, Perino MT, Labonte AK, Koirala S, Barch DM, Sylvester CM. 2025 Youth Generalized Anxiety and Brain Activation States During Socioemotional Processing. JAMA Psychiatry, 82(3):264-73. PMCID: PMC11883562

Moser J, Labonte AK, Madison TJ, Hantzsch L, Pham HHN, Weldon KB, Camacho MC, Schwarzlose RF, Koirala S, Lundquist JT, Sung S, Morales Carrasco C, Hermosillo RJM, Nelson SM, Elison JT, Fair DA, Sylvester CM. 2025 Precision functional neuroimaging reveals individually specific auditory responses in infants. Dev Cogn Neurosci, 77():101644. PMCID:

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. 2024 Functional parcellation of the neonatal cortical surface. Cereb Cortex, 34(2):bhae047. PMCID: PMC10875653

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. 2024 Brexanolone Treatment in a Real-World Patient Population: A Case Series and Pilot Feasibility Study of Precision Neuroimaging. J Clin Psychopharmacol, 44(3):240-49. PMCID: PMC11177577

Labonte AK, Camacho MC, Moser J, Koirala S, Laumann TO, Marek S, Fair D, Sylvester CM. 2024 Precision Functional Mapping to Advance Developmental Psychiatry Research. Biol Psychiatry Glob Open Sci, 4(6):100370

Subramanian S, Labonte AK, Nguyen T, Luong AH, Hyche O, Smith SK, Hogan RE, Farber NB, Palanca BJA, Kafashan M; CET-REM Study Group. 2022 Correlating electroconvulsive therapy response to electroencephalographic markers: Study protocol. Front Psychiatry, 13():996733. PMCID: PMC9670172