PHD Samantha Weber
Postdoctoral Researcher and Project Management
- Phone
- +41 31 632 12 78
- samantha.weber@insel.ch
- Postal Address
- Samantha Weber
Inselspital
Universitätsklinik für Neurologie
3010 Bern
Education and Academic Career
- 01/2023 – Present: Postdoctoral Researcher at University Hospital, Inselspital Bern, Switzerland
- 05/2019-12/2022: PhD in Neuroscience at University of Bern, Switzerland. Dissertation title: “The role of stress on neuropathophysiological mechanisms in functional neurological disorders.”
Supervision: Prof. Dr. med. Selma Aybek - 09/2022: External doctoral student at Fundación Pública Galega de Medicina Xenómica, Universidad Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Focus on genomic data analyses.
- 10/2018 – 03/2019: Master thesis at ETH Zürich/University of Bern: “Identification of Functional Neurological Disorders by a Support Vector Machine Classifier based on the Resting-State Functional Connectivity”
Supervision: Prof. Nicole Wenderoth, Prof. Dr. med. Selma Aybek - 09/2017 – 03/2019: Master (M.Sc.) Health Science and Technology with Major in Neurscience at ETH Zürich, Switzerland
- 09/13 – 03/2017: Bachelor (B.Sc.) in Health Science and Technology at ETH Zürich, Switzerland
LinkedIn: https://ch.linkedin.com/in/samantha-weber-357470223
Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Samantha-Weber-4
Publications
2024
Weber, Samantha; Bühler, Janine; Messmer, Fabian; Bruckmaier, Rupert; Aybek, Selma (2024). Cortisol in functional neurological disorders: State, trait and prognostic biomarkers. Journal of psychosomatic research, 179, p. 111615. Elsevier 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2024.111615
Weber, Samantha; Bühler, Janine; Serafeim, Loukas; Bolton, Thomas A W; Vanini, Giorgio; Bruckmaier, Rupert; Aybek, Selma (2024). Transient resting-state salience-limbic co-activation patterns in functional neurological disorders. NeuroImage: Clinical, 41, p. 103583. Elsevier 10.1016/j.nicl.2024.103583
Vanini, Giorgio; Bühler, Janine; Weber, Samantha; Steinauer, Manuela; Aybek, Selma (2024). Healthcare employment as a risk factor for functional neurological disorder: A case-control study. European journal of neurology, 31(1), e16056. Wiley 10.1111/ene.16056
Bühler, Janine; Weber, Samantha; Serafeim, Loukas; Walther, Sebastian; Aybek, Selma (2024). Non-invasive neuromodulation of the right temporoparietal junction using theta-burst stimulation in functional neurological disorder. BMJ neurology open, 6(e000525) British Medical Association 10.1136/bmjno-2023-000525
2023
Weber, Samantha; Bühler, Janine; Vanini, Giorgio; Loukas, Serafeim; Bruckmaier, Rupert; Aybek, Selma (2023). Identification of biopsychological trait markers in functional neurological disorders. Brain : a journal of neurology, 146(6), pp. 2627-2641. Oxford University Press 10.1093/brain/awac442
2022
Weber, Samantha (2022). The Role of Stress in Neuropathophysiological Mechanisms of Functional Neurological Disorders (Unpublished). (Dissertation, University of Bern, Medicine)
Weber, Samantha; Heim, Salome; Richiardi, Jonas; Van De Ville, Dimitri; Serranová, Tereza; Jech, Robert; Marapin, Ramesh S; Tijssen, Marina A J; Aybek Rusca, Selma (2022). Multi-centre classification of functional neurological disorders based on resting-state functional connectivity. NeuroImage: Clinical, 35, p. 103090. Elsevier 10.1016/j.nicl.2022.103090
2021
Zito, Giuseppe Angelo; Hartmann, Andreas; Béranger, Benoît; Weber, Samantha; Aybek, Selma; Faouzi, Johann; Roze, Emmanuel; Vidailhet, Marie; Worbe, Yulia (2021). Multivariate classification provides a neural signature of Tourette disorder. Psychological medicine, 53(6), pp. 2361-2369. Cambridge University Press 10.1017/S0033291721004232
Zito, Giuseppe A.; Worbe, Yulia; Lamy, Jean-Charles; Kälin, Joel; Bühler, Janine; Weber, Samantha; Müri, René Martin; Aybek, Selma (2021). Behavioral Differences Across Theta Burst Stimulation Protocols. A Study on the Sense of Agency in Healthy Humans. Frontiers in neuroscience, 15, p. 658688. Frontiers Research Foundation 10.3389/fnins.2021.658688