Belen Lafon

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Belen Lafon is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Belen Lafon has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 7 papers in Neurology and 5 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Belen Lafon's work include Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies (7 papers), EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (5 papers) and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (4 papers). Belen Lafon is often cited by papers focused on Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies (7 papers), EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (5 papers) and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (4 papers). Belen Lafon collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Grenada. Belen Lafon's co-authors include Lucas C. Parra, Marom Bikson, Asif Rahman, Orrin Devinsky, Yu Huang, Anli Liu, Daniel Friedman, Werner Doyle, Michael Dayan and Xiuyuan Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, NeuroImage and The Journal of Physiology.

In The Last Decade

Belen Lafon

11 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Measurements and models of electric fields in the in vivo human brain during transcranial electric stimulation

2017 389 citations Yu Huang, Anli Liu et al. eLife profile →

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Belen Lafon

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Greg Kronberg United States

Timothy Wagner United States

Yuzhuo Su United States

Toralf Neuling Germany

Mihály Vöröslakos United States

Christoph Zrenner Germany

Takenobu Murakami Japan

Zsolt Turi Germany

Paul J. Maccabee United States

Gábor Kozák Hungary

Greg Kronberg United States

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657 ×0.8

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536 ×0.7

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331 ×0.8

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150 ×0.9

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45 ×0.4

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Belen Lafon

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12 of 12 papers shown

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Heneghan, Conor, Yun Liu, Logan Schneider, et al.. (2025). Insights into maternal sleep: a large-scale longitudinal analysis of real-world wearable device data before, during, and after pregnancy. EBioMedicine. 114. 105640–105640. 2 indexed citations

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Lafon, Belen, Simon Henin, Yu Huang, et al.. (2017). Low frequency transcranial electrical stimulation does not entrain sleep rhythms measured by human intracranial recordings. Nature Communications. 8(1). 1199–1199. 134 indexed citations

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Huang, Yu, Anli Liu, Belen Lafon, et al.. (2017). Measurements and models of electric fields in the in vivo human brain during transcranial electric stimulation. eLife. 6. 389 indexed citations breakdown →

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Huang, Yu, Anli Liu, Belen Lafon, et al.. (2017). Measurements and models of electric fields in the in vivo human brain during transcranial electric stimulation. Brain stimulation. 10(4). e25–e26. 23 indexed citations

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Rahman, Asif, Belen Lafon, Lucas C. Parra, & Marom Bikson. (2017). Direct current stimulation boosts synaptic gain and cooperativity in vitro. The Journal of Physiology. 595(11). 3535–3547. 53 indexed citations

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Lafon, Belen, Anli Liu, Yu Huang, et al.. (2017). Direct Experimental Validation of Computational Current Flow Models with Intra-Cranial Recordings in Human and Non-Human Primates. Brain stimulation. 10(1). e15–e15.

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Jog, Mayank, Robert X. Smith, Kay Jann, et al.. (2016). In-vivo Imaging of Magnetic Fields Induced by Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) in Human Brain using MRI. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 34385–34385. 41 indexed citations

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Lafon, Belen, Asif Rahman, Marom Bikson, & Lucas C. Parra. (2016). Direct Current Stimulation Alters Neuronal Input/Output Function. Brain stimulation. 10(1). 36–45. 102 indexed citations

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Jackson, Mark, et al.. (2016). Animal models of transcranial direct current stimulation: Methods and mechanisms. Clinical Neurophysiology. 127(11). 3425–3454. 208 indexed citations

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Rahman, Asif, Belen Lafon, & Marom Bikson. (2015). Multilevel computational models for predicting the cellular effects of noninvasive brain stimulation. Progress in brain research. 222. 25–40. 41 indexed citations

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Binder, Sonja, Fernando Gasca, Belen Lafon, et al.. (2014). Transcranial Slow Oscillation Stimulation During Sleep Enhances Memory Consolidation in Rats. Brain stimulation. 7(4). 508–515. 49 indexed citations

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Antal, Andrea, Marom Bikson, Abhishek Datta, et al.. (2012). Imaging artifacts induced by electrical stimulation during conventional fMRI of the brain. NeuroImage. 85. 1040–1047. 95 indexed citations

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