Chad Sylvester

Associate Professor of Psychiatry

Phone: 314-286-1700
Email: chad.sylvester@nospam.wustl.edu

Education & Training

- Fellowship: Child Psychiatry: Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 2014

Residency: Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 2012

PhD: Neuroscience: Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 2009

MD: Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 2009

BS: University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 2001

Major Awards

- AACAP Robinson Cunningham Award, For best manuscript written by a child and adolescent psychiatrist during residency training, American Acad. of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2013

Eli Robins Award, For excellence in clinical psychiatry, teaching, and research and in recognition of potential for leadership in academic medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, 2013

Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, Washington University School of Medicine, 2012

Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Fellow, For past achievement and the promise of a distinguished career in the biomedical sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, 2009

Peter Halstead Hudgens Award, For excellence in research and clinical psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, 2009

Areas of Clinical Interest

Childhood Anxiety Disorders

Research Interests

Functional Brain Networks in Childhood Anxiety Disorders

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Key Publications

Sylvester CM, Yu Q, Srivastava AB, Marek S, Zheng A, Alexopoulos D, Smyser CD, Shimony JS, Ortega M, Dierker DL, Patel GH, Nelson SM, Gilmore AW, McDermott KB, Berg JJ, Drysdale AT, Perino MT, Snyder AZ, Raut RV, Laumann TO, Gordon EM, Barch DM, Rogers CE, Greene DJ, Raichle ME, Dosenbach NUF, (2020 02). Individual-specific functional connectivity of the amygdala: A substrate for precision psychiatry. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.. 117(7): 3808-3818.
Read publication »Individual-specific functional connectivity of the amygdala: A substrate for precision psychiatry.
Sylvester CM, Smyser CD, Smyser T, Kenley J, Ackerman JJ, Shimony JS, Petersen SE, Rogers CE, (2018 02). Cortical Functional Connectivity Evident After Birth and Behavioral Inhibition at Age 2. Am J Psychiatry. 175(2): 180-187.
Read publication »Cortical Functional Connectivity Evident After Birth and Behavioral Inhibition at Age 2.
Gilbert K, Perino MT, Myers MJ, Sylvester CM, (2020 May). Overcontrol and neural response to errors in pediatric anxiety disorders. J Anxiety Disord. 72: 102224.
Read publication »Overcontrol and neural response to errors in pediatric anxiety disorders.
Sylvester CM, Corbetta M, Raichle ME, Rodebaugh TL, Schlaggar BL, Sheline YI, Zorumski CF, Lenze EJ (2012 Sep). Functional network dysfunction in anxiety and anxiety disorders. Trends Neurosci. 35(9): 527-35.
Read publication »Functional network dysfunction in anxiety and anxiety disorders.
Sylvester CM, Barch DM, Corbetta M, Power JD, Schlaggar BL, Luby JL (2013 Dec). Resting state functional connectivity of the ventral attention network in children with a history of depression or anxiety. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 52(12): 1326-1336.e5.
Read publication »Resting state functional connectivity of the ventral attention network in children with a history of depression or anxiety.
Sylvester CM, Hudziak JJ, Gaffrey MS, Barch DM, Luby JL (2015 Feb 24). Stimulus-Driven Attention, Threat Bias, and Sad Bias in Youth with a History of an Anxiety Disorder or Depression. J Abnorm Child Psychol.
Read publication »Stimulus-Driven Attention, Threat Bias, and Sad Bias in Youth with a History of an Anxiety Disorder or Depression.

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Funded Research Projects

R01MH122389 (PI): Neonatal Brain Activity and Risk for Anxiety Disorders in Early Childhood

K23109983 (PI): Attention and Related Functional Brain Networks in Pediatric Anxiety Disorders

McDonnell Center for Systems Neuroscience Small Grant Award (PI): Functional Network Dysfunction in Individual Children with Anxiety Disorders
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