Marina Weiler, PhD

Weiler, M.*, and Woollacott, M. Rethinking Communication and Consciousness: Lessons from The Telepathy Tapes Podcast. Explore. 2025. doi:10.1016/j.explore.2025.103271. 

Weiler, M.*, Pehlivanova, M., Cozzolino, P., and Penberthy, K. P. The Psychiatric Lens on Extraordinary Experiences: Improving Care Without Misdiagnosis. Psychiatric Times. 2025. 

Weiler, M.*, Moreira-Almeida, A., and Monti, M. M. Distinguishing out-of-body experiences from lucid dreaming: a phenomenological analysis. Front Psychol. 16:1600707, 2025. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1600707. 

Pehlivanova, M.*, Weiler, M., Penberthy, K. P., and Cozzolino, P. Psychiatry and Spirituality: Exploring the Intersections of Meaning and Mental Health. Psychiatric Times. 42(8), 2025. 

Weiler, M.*, Moreira-Almeida, A., and Monti, M. M. Are out-of-body experiences indicative of an underlying psychopathology? Personality and Individual Differences. 246:113292, 2025. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2025.113292.

Woollacott, M.*, and Weiler, M. Neural filters to conscious awareness and the phenomena that reduce their impact. International Review of Psychiatry. 2025. doi:10.1080/09540261.2025.2478907.

Weiler, M.*, Casseb, R. F., and Acunzo, D. Using eye movement to signal the onset of self-induced out-of-body experiences. Journal of Consciousness Studies. 32:135-149, 2025. doi:10.53765/20512201.32.3.135. 

Weiler, M.*, and Acunzo, D. What out-of-body experiences tell us about the mind-brain relationship. International Review of Psychiatry. 1-10, 2024. doi:10.1080/09540261.2024.2436598. 

Weiler, M.*, Acunzo, D., Cozzolino, P. J., and Greyson, B. Exploring the transformative potential of out-of-body experiences: a pathway to enhanced empathy. Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 163:105764, 2024. doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2024.105764.

Pehlivanova, M.*, Weiler, M., and Greyson, B. Cognitive styles and psi: psi researchers are more similar to skeptics than to lay believers. Frontiers in Psychology. 15:1398121, 2024. doi:0.3389/fpsyg.2024.1398121.

Weiler, M., Casseb, R. F., de Campos, B. M., Crone, J. S., Lutkenhoff, E. S., Vespa, P. M., and Monti, M. M.*, for the EpiBioS4Rx Study Group. Early alterations of thalami- and hippocampi-cortical functional connectivity are biomarkers of seizures after traumatic brain injury. NeuroImage: Reports. 4.3:100217, 2024. doi:10.1016/j.ynirp.2024.100217. 

Weiler, M., Stieger, K. C., Shroff, K., Klein, J. P., Wood III, W. H., Zhang, Y., Chandrasekaran, P., Lehrmann, E., Camandola, S., Long, J. M., Mattson, M., Becker, K. G.*, and Rapp, P. R. Transcriptional changes in the rat brain induced by repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS). Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 17:1215291, 2023. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2023.1215291. 

Weiler, M.*, Casseb, R. F., and Moreira-Almeida, A. A Possible Case of Censorship of Submissions on the Nature of Consciousness. Journal of Anomalous Experience and Cognition. 2(2):297–315, 2022. doi:10.31156/jaex.24121. 

Weiler, M., Casseb, R. F., de Campos, B. M., Crone, J. S., Lutkenhoff, E. S., Vespa, P. M., and Monti, M. M.*, for the EpiBioS4Rx Study Group. Evaluating denoising strategies in resting-state fMRI in traumatic brain injury (EpiBioS4Rx). Human Brain Mapping. 43(15):4640-4649, 2022. doi:10.1002/hbm.25979.

Weiler, M., Moreno-Castilla, P. R., Starnes, H. M., Melendez, E. L. R., Stieger, K. C., Long, J. M., and Rapp, P. R.* Effects of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation on memory in aged rats depend on pre-treatment cognitive status: toward individualized intervention for successful cognitive aging. Brain Stimulation. 14:1219-1225, 2021. doi:10.1016/j.brs.2021.08.008.

Vicentini, J. E., Weiler, M., Casseb, R. F., Almeida, S. R., Valler, L., de Campos, B. M., and Li, L. M.* Subacute functional connectivity correlates with cognitive recovery six months after stroke. Neuroimage Clin. 29:102538, 2021. doi:10.1016/j.nicl.2020.102538.

Folego, G., Weiler, M., Casseb, R. F., Pires, R., and Rocha, A.* Alzheimer's Disease detection through whole-brain 3D-CNN MRI. Front Bioeng Biotechnol. 8:534592, 2020. doi:10.3389/fbioe.2020.534592. 

Weiler, M.*, Stieger, K. C., Long, J. M., and Rapp, P. R. Transcranial magnetic stimulation in Alzheimer's disease: are we ready? eNeuro. 7;7(1), 2020. doi:10.1523/ENEURO.0235-19.2019. 

Weiler, M.*, Casseb, R. F., de Campos, B. M., Teixeira, C. V. L., Carletti-Cassani, A. F. M. K., Vicentini, J. E., Magalhães, T. N. C., de Almeira, D. Q., Talib, L. L., Forlenza, O. V., Balthazar, M. L., and Castellano, G. Cognitive reserve relates to functional network efficiency in Alzheimer’s Disease. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience. 10:255, 2018. doi:10.3389/fnagi.2018.00255.

Teixeira, C. V. L., Rezende, T. J. R., Weiler, M., Magalhães, T. N. C., Carletti-Cassani, A. F. M. K., Silva, T. Q. A. C., Joaquim, H. P. G., Talib, L. L., Forlenza, O. V., Franco, M. P., Nechio, P. E., Fernandes, P., Cendes, F., and Balthazar, M. L.* Cognitive and structural cerebral changes in aMCI due to AD after multicomponent training. Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Translational Research & Clinical Interventions. 4:473-480, 2018. doi:10.1016/j.trci.2018.02.003.

Magalhães, T. N. C., Weiler, M., Teixeira, C. V. L., Hayata, T., Moraes, A. S., Boldrini, V. O., dos Santos, L. M., de Campos, B. M., de Rezende, T. J. R., Joaquim, H. P. G., Talib, L. L., Forlenza, O. V., Cendes, F., and Balthazar, M. L.* Systemic inflammation and multimodal biomarkers in amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's disease. Mol. Neurobiol. 55(7):5689-97, 2018. doi:10.1007/s12035-017-0795-9. 

Weiler, M.*, de Campos, B. M., Teixeira, C. V. L., Casseb, R. F., Carletti-Cassani, A. F., Vicentini, J. E., Magalhães, T. N., Talib, L. L., Forlenza, O. V., and Balthazar, M. L. Intranetwork and internetwork connectivities in Alzheimer's disease and the relationship with CSF biomarker levels. Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience. 42(3):160190, 2017. doi:10.1503/jpn.160190. 

Weiler, M.*, Northoff, G., Damasceno, B. P., and Balthazar, M. L. The self, cortical midline structures, and the resting-state: implications for Alzheimer's disease. Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 68:245-55, 2016. doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2016.05.028.

Vicentini, J. E., Weiler, M., Almeida, S. R. M., de Campos, B. M., Valler, L., and Li, L. M.* Depression and anxiety symptoms are associated with disruption of the Default Mode Network in subacute ischemic stroke. Brain Imaging and Behavior. 11(6):1571-1580, 2016. doi:10.1007/s11682-016-9605-7.

Teixeira, C. V. L., Rezende, T. J. R., Weiler, M., de Campos, B. M., Nogueira, M. H., Vicentini, J. E., Pegoraro, L. F. L., Scriptore, G., Cendes, F., and Balthazar, M. L.* Relation between aerobic fitness and brain structures in amnestic mild cognitive impairment elderly. Age (Dordr). 38(3):51, 2016. doi:10.1007/s11357-016-9912-3.

Weiler, M., Agosta, F., Canu, E., Copetti, M., Magnani, G., Marcone, A., Pagani, E., Balthazar, M. L., Comi, G., Falini, A., and Filippi, M.* Following the spreading of brain structural changes in Alzheimer's disease: a longitudinal, multimodal MRI study. J Alzheimers Dis. 47(4):995-1007, 2015. doi:10.3233/JAD-150196.

Agosta, F., Weiler, M., and Filippi, M.* Propagation of pathology through brain networks in neurodegenerative diseases: from molecules to clinical phenotypes. CNS Neurosci Ther. 21(10):754-67, 2015. doi:10.1111/cns.12410. 

Weiler, M.*, Teixeira, C. V. L., Nogueira, M. H., de Campos, B. M., Damasceno, B. P., Cendes, F., and Balthazar, M. L. Differences and the relationship in DMN intrinsic activity and functional connectivity in mild AD and aMCI. Brain Connect. 4(8):567-74, 2014. doi:10.1089/brain.2014.0234. 

Weiler, M.*, de Campos, B. M., Nogueira, M. H., Damasceno, B. P., Cendes, F., and Balthazar, M. L. Structural connectivity of the default mode network and cognition in Alzheimer's disease. Psychiatry Res. 223(1):15-22, 2014. doi:10.1016/j.pscychresns.2014.04.008. 

Weiler, M., Fukuda, A., Massabki, L. H., Lopes, T. M., Franco, A. R., Damasceno, B. P., Cendes, F., and Balthazar, M. L.* Default mode, executive function, and language functional connectivity networks are compromised in mild Alzheimer's disease. Curr Alzheimer Res. 11(3):274-82, 2014. doi:10.2174/1567205011666140131114716.

Germano da Paz, O., Guillaumon, A. T., Lopes, T. M., Weiler, M., Cendes, F., and Balthazar, M. L.* Carotid stenting versus endarterectomy cognitive outcomes. Ann Vasc Surg. 28(4):893-900, 2014. doi:10.1016/j.avsg.2013.10.010. 

Weiler, M., Cendes, F., and Balthazar, M. L.* Comparing regional brain atrophy in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease. Neurodegenerative Disease Management. 3(5):417-426, 2013. doi:10.2217/nmt.13.49.

Weiler, M., Pedro, T., Yasuda, C. L., D'Abreu, A., Damasceno, B. P., Cendes, F., and Balthazar, M. L.* Volumetric brain changes in thalamus, corpus callosum and medial temporal structures: mild Alzheimer's disease compared with amnestic mild cognitive impairment. Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord. 34(3-4):149-55, 2012. doi:10.1159/000342118.