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Thomas Weiss is affiliated with Friedrich Schiller University Jena in Germany. Their academic work centers primarily in the field of Medicine, with significant contributions in subfields such as Epidemiology, Surgery, Cognitive Neuroscience, Physiology, and General Health Professions.

Weiss has published extensively on topics related to respiratory infections, pain management, and musculoskeletal conditions. Key areas of research include Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections, Pain Management and Placebo Effect, Respiratory Viral Infections Research, Pain Mechanisms and Treatments, Spinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques, Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology, and Musculoskeletal Pain and Rehabilitation.

Recent scholarly papers authored include:

  • Neural mechanisms of pain processing differ between endurance athletes and nonathletes: A functional connectivity magnetic resonance imaging study, 2021, Human Brain Mapping
  • Symptoms of mental disorders and oral contraception use: A systematic review and meta-analysis, 2023, Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology
  • Economic burden of acute otitis media, pneumonia, and invasive pneumococcal disease in children in the United States after the introduction of 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccines during 2014-2018, 2023, BMC Health Services Research
  • Matching-adjusted indirect comparison of pneumococcal vaccines V114 and PCV20, 2021, Expert Review of Vaccines
  • Health and economic burden of invasive pneumococcal disease associated with 15-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine serotypes in children across eight European countries, 2021, Journal of Medical Economics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Weiss include:

  • Oliver Gonschorek
  • Maria Geisler
  • Ulrich Spiegl
  • Zora Kikinis
  • Salini Mohanty

Weiss's research has been published regularly in key venues such as Der Schmerz, Expert Review of Vaccines, Der Unfallchirurg, MSK - Muskuloskelettale Physiotherapie, and Medizinrecht. These publications indicate a diverse engagement with clinical and health services research, particularly in pain and vaccine-related fields.

Best Publications

  • Psychobiology of altered states of Consciousness

    Dieter Vaitl;Niels Birbaumer;John Gruzelier;Graham A. Jamieson

  • Psychobiology of altered states of consciousness.

    Dieter Vaitl;Niels Birbaumer;John Gruzelier;Graham A. Jamieson

  • Implementation of error-processing in the human anterior cingulate cortex: a source analysis of the magnetic equivalent of the error-related negativity

    Wolfgang H.R. Miltner;Ulrike Lemke;Thomas Weiss;Clay Holroyd

  • Quantitative sensory testing in the German Research Network on Neuropathic Pain (DFNS): reference data for the trunk and application in patients with chronic postherpetic neuralgia.

    Doreen B. Pfau;Elena K. Krumova;Rolf-Detlef Treede;Ralf Baron

  • Sensory feedback prosthesis reduces phantom limb pain: proof of a principle.

    Caroline Dietrich;Katrin Walter-Walsh;Sandra Preißler;Gunther O. Hofmann

  • Decrease in phantom limb pain associated with prosthesis-induced increased use of an amputation stump in humans.

    Thomas Weiss;Wolfgang H.R. Miltner;Torsten Adler;Lutz Brückner

  • Dynamic activation of the anterior cingulate cortex during anticipatory anxiety.

    Thomas Straube;Stephanie Schmidt;Thomas Weiss;Hans-Joachim Mentzel

  • Event-related brain potentials and affective responses to threat in spider/snake-phobic and non-phobic subjects

    Wolfgang H.R. Miltner;Ralf H. Trippe;Silke Krieschel;Ingmar Gutberlet

  • Eye movements and behavioral responses to threatening and nonthreatening stimuli during visual search in phobic and nonphobic subjects

    Wolfgang H. R. Miltner;Silke Krieschel;Holger Hecht;Ralf Trippe

  • Rapid functional plasticity of the somatosensory cortex after finger amputation

    Thomas Weiss;Wolfgang H.R. Miltner;Ralph Huonker;Reinhard Friedel

  • A new Kalman filter approach for the estimation of high-dimensional time-variant multivariate AR models and its application in analysis of laser-evoked brain potentials.

    Thomas Milde;Lutz Leistritz;Laura Astolfi;Wolfgang H R Miltner

  • Increased excitability in the primary motor cortex and supplementary motor area in patients with phantom limb pain after upper limb amputation.

    C Dettmers;T Adler;R Rzanny;R van Schayck

  • Rapid functional plasticity in the primary somatomotor cortex and perceptual changes after nerve block

    Thomas Weiss;Wolfgang H. R. Miltner;Joachim Liepert;Winfried Meissner

  • Do words hurt? Brain activation during the processing of pain-related words.

    Maria Richter;Judith Eck;Thomas Straube;Wolfgang H.R. Miltner

  • Sex differences in brain activation to anticipated and experienced pain in the medial prefrontal cortex.

    Thomas Straube;Stephanie Schmidt;Thomas Weiss;Hans-Joachim Mentzel

  • Dipole analysis of ultralate (C-fibres) evoked potentials after laser stimulation of tiny cutaneous surface areas in humans.

    Emmanuelle Opsommer;Thomas Weiss;Léon Plaghki;Wolfgang H.R. Miltner

  • Power of theta waves in the EEG of human subjects increases during recall of haptic information.

    Martin Grunwald;Thomas Weiss;Werner Krause;Lothar Beyer

  • Severe bleeding following lumbar sympathetic blockade in two patients under medication with irreversible platelet aggregation inhibitors.

    Christoph Maier;Martin Gleim;Thomas Weiss;Ulf Stachetzki

  • Gray Matter Changes Following Limb Amputation with High and Low Intensities of Phantom Limb Pain

    Sandra Preißler;Johanna Feiler;Caroline Dietrich;Gunther O. Hofmann

  • Theta power in the EEG of humans during ongoing processing in a haptic object recognition task.

    Martin Grunwald;Thomas Weiss;Werner Krause;Lothar Beyer

  • Leg Prosthesis With Somatosensory Feedback Reduces Phantom Limb Pain and Increases Functionality.

    Caroline Dietrich;Sandra Nehrdich;Sandra Seifert;Kathrin R. Blume

Frequent Co-Authors

Wolfgang H. R. Miltner
Wolfgang H. R. Miltner Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Otto W. Witte
Otto W. Witte Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Thomas Straube
Thomas Straube University of Münster
Christoph Maier
Christoph Maier Ruhr University Bochum
Markus Lappe
Markus Lappe University of Münster
Walter Magerl
Walter Magerl Heidelberg University
Léon Plaghki
Léon Plaghki Université Catholique de Louvain
Sylvain Bouix
Sylvain Bouix Harvard Medical School
Andrea Kübler
Andrea Kübler University of Würzburg
John Gruzelier
John Gruzelier Goldsmiths University of London

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