Publications

2024

Wengler K, Baker SC, Velikovskaya A, Fogelson A, Girgis RR, Reyes-Madrigal F, Lee S, de la Fuente-Sandoval C, Ojeil N, Horga G.

Generalizability and Out-of-Sample Predictive Ability of Associations Between Neuromelanin-Sensitive Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Psychosis in Antipsychotic-Free Individuals.
JAMA Psychiatry. 2024 Feb 1;81(2):198-208.

Goldberg A, Rosario I, Power J, Horga G*, Wengler K*.

Strategies for motion-and respiration-robust estimation of fMRI intrinsic neural timescales.  
bioRxiv. 2024:2024-04.

van der Pluijm M, Wengler K, Reijers PN, Cassidy CM, Joe KT, de Peuter OR, Horga G, Booij J, de Haan L, van de Giessen E.

Neuromelanin-Sensitive MRI as Candidate Marker for Treatment Resistance in First-Episode Schizophrenia.
American Journal of Psychiatry. 2024 Mar 13.

Weinstein JJ, Moeller SJ, Perlman G, Gil R, Van Snellenberg JX, Wengler K, Meng J, Slifstein M, Abi-Dargham A.

Imaging the Vesicular Acetylcholine Transporter in Schizophrenia: a PET study using [18F]-VAT.
Biological Psychiatry. 2024 Feb 2.

2023

Pagliaccio D, Wengler K, Durham K, Fontaine M, Rueppel M, Becker H, Bilek E, Pieper S, Risdon C, Horga G, Fitzgerald KD, Marsh R.

Probing midbrain dopamine function in pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder via neuromelanin-sensitive magnetic resonance imaging.
Molecular Psychiatry. 2023 Jul;28(7):3075-82.

van Hooijdonk CF, van der Pluijm M, Smith C, Yaqub M, van Velden FH, Horga G, Wengler K, Hoven M, van Holst RJ, de Haan L, Selten JP. van Amelsvoort TAMJ, Booij J, van de Giessen E.

Striatal dopamine synthesis capacity and neuromelanin in the substantia nigra: A multimodal imaging study in schizophrenia and healthy controls.
Neuroscience Applied. 2023 Jan 1;2:101134.

2022

Narayan GA, Hill KR, Wengler K, He X, Wang J, Yang J, Parsey RV, DeLorenzo C.

Does the change in glutamate to GABA ratio correlate with change in depression severity? A randomized, double-blind clinical trial. 
Molecular Psychiatry. 2022 Sep;27(9):3833-41.

Chen YW, Wengler K, He X, Canli T.

Individual Differences in Cerebral Perfusion as a Function of Age and Loneliness.
Experimental Aging Research. 2022 Jan 1;48(1):1-23

Ali FZ, Wengler K, He X, Nguyen MH, Parsey RV, DeLorenzo C.

Gradient boosting decision-tree-based algorithm with neuroimaging for personalized treatment in depression.
Neuroscience Informatics. 2022 Dec 1;2(4):100110.

Raio CM, Biernacki K, Kapoor A, Wengler K, Bonagura D, Xue J, Constantino SM, Horga G, Konova AB.

Suboptimal foraging decisions and involvement of the ventral tegmental area in human opioid addiction.
bioRxiv. 2022 Mar 27:2022-03.

Moeller SJ, Gil R, Weinstein JJ, Baumvoll T, Wengler K, Fallon N, Van Snellenberg JX, Abeykoon S, Perlman G, Williams J, Manu L. Slifstein M, Cassidy CM, Martinez DM, Abi-Dargham A.

Deep rTMS of the insula and prefrontal cortex in smokers with schizophrenia: proof-of-concept study.
Schizophrenia. 2022 Feb 25;8(1):6.

2021

Salzman G, Kim J, Horga G*, Wengler K*.

Standardized data acquisition for neuromelanin-sensitive magnetic resonance imaging of the substantia nigra. 
JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments). 2021 Sep 8(175):e62493

Horga G, Wengler K, Cassidy CM.

Neuromelanin-sensitive magnetic resonance imaging as a proxy marker for catecholamine function in psychiatry. 
JAMA Psychiatry. 2021 Jul 1;78(7):788-9.

Wengler K, Cassidy C, van Der Pluijm M, Weinstein JJ, Abi‐Dargham A, van de Giessen E, Horga G.

Cross‐scanner harmonization of neuromelanin‐sensitive MRI for multisite studies.
Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 2021 Oct;54(4):1189-99.

2020

Wengler K, Goldberg AT, Chahine G, Horga G.

Distinct hierarchical alterations of intrinsic neural timescales account for different manifestations of psychosis. 
eLife. 2020 Oct 27;9:e56151.

Wengler K, Ha J, Syritsyna O, Bangiyev L, Coyle PK, Duong TQ, Schweitzer ME, He X.

Abnormal blood-brain barrier water exchange in chronic multiple sclerosis lesions: A preliminary study.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 2020 Jul 1;70:126-33.

Wengler K, He X, Abi-Dargham A, Horga G.

Reproducibility assessment of neuromelanin-sensitive magnetic resonance imaging protocols for region-of-interest and voxelwise analyses.
Neuroimage. 2020 Mar 1;208:116457.

Wengler K, Fukuda T, Tank D, Komatsu DE, Paulus M, Huang M, Gould ES, Schweitzer ME, He X.

In vivo evaluation of human patellar tendon microstructure and microcirculation with diffusion MRI.
Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 2020 Mar;51(3):780-90.

Wengler K, Horga G.

The Quest for a Selective Mapping Between Striatal Dopamine Subcircuits and Psychosis Symptoms. 
Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. 2020 Nov 1;5(11):1004-6.

2019

Wengler K, Bangiyev L, Canli T, Duong TQ, Schweitzer ME, He X.

3D MRI of whole-brain water permeability with intrinsic diffusivity encoding of arterial labeled spin (IDEALS).
Neuroimage. 2019 Apr 1;189:401-14.

Fukuda T, Wengler K, de Carvalho R, Boonsri P, Schweitzer ME.

MRI biomarkers in osseous tumors.
Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 2019 Sep;50(3):702-18.

Wengler K*, Wang J*, Serrano Sosa M, Gumus S, He A, Hussain S, Huang C, Tae Bae K, He X.

Mapping hepatic blood oxygenation by quantitative BOLD (qBOLD) MRI.
Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 2019 May;81(5):3272-82.

Fukuda T*, Wengler K*, Tank D, Korbin S, Paci JM, Komatsu DE, Paulus M, Huang M, Gould E, Schweitzer ME, He X.

Abbreviated quantitative UTE imaging in anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction.
BMC musculoskeletal disorders. 2019 Dec;20:1-4.

2018

Wengler K, Tank D, Fukuda T, Paci JM, Huang M, Schweitzer ME, He X.

Diffusion tensor imaging of human Achilles tendon by stimulated echo readout‐segmented EPI (ste‐RS‐EPI).
Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 2018 Dec;80(6):2464-74.

Wengler K, Fukuda T, Tank D, Huang M, Gould ES, Schweitzer ME, He X.

Intravoxel incoherent motion (IVIM) imaging in human achilles tendon.
Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 2018 Dec;48(6):1690-9.

He X, Wengler K, Schweitzer ME.

Diffusion sensitivity of 3D‐GRASE in arterial spin labeling perfusion.
Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 2018 Aug;80(2):736-47.

2016

Tyagi N, Riaz N, Hunt M, Wengler K, Hatzoglou V, Young R, Mechalakos J, Lee N.

Weekly response assessment of involved lymph nodes to radiotherapy using diffusion‐weighted MRI in oropharynx squamous cell carcinoma.
Medical Physics. 2016 Jan;43(1):137-47.