Sally M. Stoyell, Ph.D.
Research Postdoctoral Fellow
Sally M. Stoyell, Ph.D., joined the Developing Brain Institute at Children’s National Hospital in September 2025 as a Research Postdoctoral Fellow. Sally’s research focuses on understanding neurodevelopment using resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging.
Key Studies
| August 2025 | Feczko E, Stoyell SM, … Smyser CD, Rosenberg MD, Fair DA, Elison JT. Baby Open Brains: An Open-Source Dataset of Infant Brain Segmentations. Scientific Data. 2025 Aug 14;12(1):1423. doi: 10.1038/s41597-025-05404-y. PMID: 40813378; PMCID: PMC12354739 | view |
| May 2025 | Goncalves M, Moser J, Madison TJ, McCollum R, Lundquist JT, Fayzullobekova B, Hadera L, Pham HHN, Moore LA, Houghton A, Conan G, Styner MA, Alexopoulos D, Smyser CD, Stoyell SM, … Fair DA. fMRIPrep Lifespan: Extending a Robust Pipeline for Functional MRI Preprocessing to Developmental Neuroimaging. bioRxiv [Preprint]. 2025 May 18:2025.05.14.654069. doi: 10.1101/2025.05.14.654069. PMID: 40462975; PMCID: PMC12132292 | view |
| January 2025 | Hendrickson TJ, Reiners P, Moore LA, Lundquist JT, Fayzullobekova B, Perrone AJ, Lee EG, Moser J, Day TKM, Alexopoulos D, Styner M, Kardan O, Chamberlain TA, Mummaneni A, Caldas HA, Bower B, Stoyell S, … Feczko E. BIBSNet: A Deep Learning Baby Image Brain Segmentation Network for MRI Scans. bioRxiv [Preprint]. 2025 Jan 11:2023.03.22.533696. doi: 10.1101/2023.03.22.533696. Update in: Dev Cogn Neurosci. 2026 Mar 9;79:101706. doi: 10.1016/j.dcn.2026.101706. PMID: 36993540; PMCID: PMC10055337 | view |
| April 2024 | Stoyell SM, Elison JT, Graupmann E, Miller NC, Emerick J, Ramey E, Sandness K, Schleiss MR, Osterholm EA. Neurobehavioral Outcomes of Neonatal Asymptomatic Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection at 12-Months. Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders. 2024 Apr 18;16(1):19. doi: 10.1186/s11689-024-09533-0. PMID: 38637762; PMCID: PMC11025208 | view |
Date: April 2022
Seed M, Limperopoulos C. In Utero Brain Growth Matters for Fetuses With Congenital Heart Disease. Circulation. 2022 Apr 12;145(15):1120-1122. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.122.058683. Epub 2022 Apr 11. PMID: 35404677
View: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35404677
Date: January 2010
Limperopoulos C, Tworetzky W, McElhinney DB, Newburger JW, Brown DW, Robertson RL Jr, Guizard N, McGrath E, Geva J, Annese D, Dunbar-Masterson C, Trainor B, Laussen PC, du Plessis AJ. Brain Volume and Metabolism in Fetuses With Congenital Heart Disease: Evaluation With Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy. Circulation. 2010 Jan 5;121(1):26-33. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.109.865568. Epub 2009 Dec 21. PMID: 20026783; PMCID: PMC2819908
View: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2819908
Date: February 2024
Wu Y, De Asis-Cruz J, Limperopoulos C. Brain Structural and Functional Outcomes in the Offspring of Women Experiencing Psychological Distress During Pregnancy. Molecular Psychiatry. 2024 Jul;29(7):2223-2240. doi: 10.1038/s41380-024-02449-0. Epub 2024 Feb 28. PMID: 38418579; PMCID: PMC11408260
View: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38418579
Date: April 2022
Wu Y, Espinosa KM, Barnett SD, Kapse A, Quistorff JL, Lopez C, Andescavage N, Pradhan S, Lu YC, Kapse K, Henderson D, Vezina G, Wessel D, du Plessis AJ, Limperopoulos C. Association of Elevated Maternal Psychological Distress, Altered Fetal Brain, and Offspring Cognitive and Social-Emotional Outcomes at 18 Months. JAMA Network Open. 2022 Apr 1;5(4):e229244. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.9244. PMID: 35486403; PMCID: PMC9055453
View: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35486403