Leila Tarokh

3.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
57 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Leila Tarokh is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Endocrine and Autonomic Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Leila Tarokh has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 35 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 17 papers in Endocrine and Autonomic Systems. Recurrent topics in Leila Tarokh's work include Sleep and Wakefulness Research (41 papers), Sleep and related disorders (31 papers) and EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (22 papers). Leila Tarokh is often cited by papers focused on Sleep and Wakefulness Research (41 papers), Sleep and related disorders (31 papers) and EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (22 papers). Leila Tarokh collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Germany. Leila Tarokh's co-authors include Mary A. Carskadon, Stephanie J. Crowley, Jared Saletin, Amy R. Wolfson, Peter Achermann, Robert Dallmann, Steven A. Brown, Christian Cajochen, Antoine Viola and Eliza Van Reen and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Neuroscience and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Leila Tarokh

55 papers receiving 2.5k 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.

An update on adolescent sleep: New evidence informing the perfect storm model^☆

2018 471 citations Leila Tarokh, Mary A. Carskadon et al. profile →
The human circadian metabolome

2012 445 citations Leila Tarokh, Steven A. Brown et al. profile →
Sleep in adolescence: Physiology, cognition and mental health

2016 359 citations Leila Tarokh, Jared Saletin et al. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Leila Tarokh Switzerland	24	1.6k	1.3k	824	391	290	57	2.5k
Karla V. Allebrandt Germany	13	2.3k 1.5×	983 0.8×	1.9k 2.3×	640 1.6×	99 0.3×	19	3.2k
Stephanie J. Crowley United States	30	2.9k 1.8×	1.6k 1.2×	1.9k 2.4×	673 1.7×	400 1.4×	67	4.0k
Janne Grønli Norway	25	948 0.6×	766 0.6×	620 0.8×	325 0.8×	43 0.1×	71	2.7k
Iris Haimov Israel	20	959 0.6×	810 0.6×	729 0.9×	267 0.7×	46 0.2×	53	1.7k
Helen Wright Australia	19	1.2k 0.8×	954 0.8×	578 0.7×	119 0.3×	200 0.7×	33	1.5k
Niki Antypa Netherlands	29	1.0k 0.7×	319 0.3×	463 0.6×	174 0.4×	62 0.2×	59	2.2k
Naohisa Uchimura Japan	27	679 0.4×	1.1k 0.9×	418 0.5×	233 0.6×	46 0.2×	178	3.0k
Shingo Kitamura Japan	22	959 0.6×	584 0.5×	651 0.8×	203 0.5×	51 0.2×	58	1.5k
William A. Ball United States	19	973 0.6×	1.2k 0.9×	286 0.3×	154 0.4×	52 0.2×	37	2.3k
Dietmar Winkler Austria	28	532 0.3×	477 0.4×	737 0.9×	184 0.5×	25 0.1×	100	2.5k

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Tarokh, Leila, et al.. (2025). Adolescent Sleep Disruption: Implications for Psychiatric Morbidity. Biological Psychiatry. 98(11). 854–862.

Markovic, Andjela, Duco Veen, Kristina Adorjan, et al.. (2025). Joint Heritability of Sleep EEG Spindle Activity and Thalamic Volume in Early Adolescence. Journal of Neuroscience. 45(21). e1138242025–e1138242025. 1 indexed citations

Mueller, Flavia S., et al.. (2024). Maternal immune activation exerts long‐term effects on activity and sleep in male offspring mice. European Journal of Neuroscience. 60(7). 5505–5521. 1 indexed citations

Fehér, Kristoffer D., Ximena Omlin, Leila Tarokh, et al.. (2023). Feasibility, efficacy, and functional relevance of automated auditory closed‐loop suppression of slow‐wave sleep in humans. Journal of Sleep Research. 32(4). e13846–e13846. 8 indexed citations

Kaess, Michael, et al.. (2023). Sleep regularity in healthy adolescents: Associations with sleep duration, sleep quality, and mental health. Journal of Sleep Research. 32(4). e13865–e13865. 36 indexed citations

Tarokh, Leila, et al.. (2023). Sleep and Adolescent Depression. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 8(1). 3–3. 5 indexed citations

Markovic, Andjela, Michael Kaess, & Leila Tarokh. (2022). Heritability of REM sleep neurophysiology in adolescence. Translational Psychiatry. 12(1). 399–399. 9 indexed citations

Tarokh, Leila, Eliza Van Reen, Peter Achermann, & Mary A. Carskadon. (2021). Naps not as effective as a night of sleep at dissipating sleep pressure. Journal of Sleep Research. 30(5). e13295–e13295. 2 indexed citations

Markovic, Andjela, Ashura Buckley, David Driver, et al.. (2020). Sleep neurophysiology in childhood onset schizophrenia. Journal of Sleep Research. 30(2). e13039–e13039. 6 indexed citations

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Markovic, Andjela, Ashura Buckley, David Driver, et al.. (2020). Sleep spindle activity in childhood onset schizophrenia: Diminished and associated with clinical symptoms. Schizophrenia Research. 223. 327–336. 22 indexed citations

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Markovic, Andjela, Peter Achermann, Thomas Rusterholz, & Leila Tarokh. (2018). Heritability of Sleep EEG Topography in Adolescence: Results from a Longitudinal Twin Study. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 7334–7334. 27 indexed citations

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Rusterholz, Thomas, et al.. (2018). Nature and Nurture: Brain Region-Specific Inheritance of Sleep Neurophysiology in Adolescence. Journal of Neuroscience. 38(43). 9275–9285. 29 indexed citations

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Rusterholz, Thomas, Peter Achermann, Roland Dürr, Thomas Koenig, & Leila Tarokh. (2017). Global field synchronization in gamma range of the sleep EEG tracks sleep depth: Artifact introduced by a rectangular analysis window. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 284. 21–26. 3 indexed citations

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Bersagliere, Alessia, Roberto D. Pascual‐Marqui, Leila Tarokh, & Peter Achermann. (2017). Mapping Slow Waves by EEG Topography and Source Localization: Effects of Sleep Deprivation. Brain Topography. 31(2). 257–269. 47 indexed citations

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Achermann, Peter, Thomas Rusterholz, Roland Dürr, Thomas König, & Leila Tarokh. (2016). Global field synchronization reveals rapid eye movement sleep as most synchronized brain state in the human EEG. Royal Society Open Science. 3(10). 160201–160201. 22 indexed citations

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Tarokh, Leila, Jared Saletin, & Mary A. Carskadon. (2016). Sleep in adolescence: Physiology, cognition and mental health. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 70. 182–188. 359 indexed citations breakdown →

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Achermann, Peter & Leila Tarokh. (2014). Human sleep and its regulation. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 63(2). 173–180. 4 indexed citations

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Tarokh, Leila, Mary A. Carskadon, & Peter Achermann. (2014). Early Adolescent Cognitive Gains Are Marked by Increased Sleep EEG Coherence. PLoS ONE. 9(9). e106847–e106847. 26 indexed citations

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Tarokh, Leila, Mary A. Carskadon, & Peter Achermann. (2011). Trait-Like Characteristics of the Sleep EEG across Adolescent Development. Journal of Neuroscience. 31(17). 6371–6378. 51 indexed citations

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Tarokh, Leila & Mary A. Carskadon. (2010). Developmental Changes in the Human Sleep EEG During Early Adolescence. SLEEP. 33(6). 801–809. 120 indexed citations

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