Mark W. Mahowald

10.1k citations

111 papers · 6.0k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 36

Cognitive Neuroscience top 0.5%
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology top 0.2%
Epidemiology top 1%
Neurology top 0.5%
Endocrine and Autonomic Systems top 0.5%

Co-authors: Carlos H. Schenck Scott R. Bundlie Milton G. Ettinger Bradley F. Boeve Thomas D. Hurwitz Michel A. Cramer Bornemann Gerald M. Rosen George S. Goding
Topics: Sleep and Wakefulness Research (69 papers)Sleep and related disorders (46 papers)Neuroscience of respiration and sleep (22 papers)
Cited by: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Cognitive Neuroscience Endocrine and Autonomic Systems
Journals: Nature New England Journal of Medicine Brain
Partner nations: United States Japan Canada

In The Last Decade

Mark W. Mahowald

104 papers receiving 5.7k citations

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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.

Chronic Behavioral Disorders of Human REM Sleep: A New Category of Parasomnia

1986 743 citations Carlos H. Schenck, Milton G. Ettinger et al. SLEEP profile →
Delayed emergence of a parkinsonian disorder or dementia in 81% of older men initially diagnosed with idiopathic rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder: a 16-year update on a previously reported series

2013 571 citations Carlos H. Schenck, Mark W. Mahowald et al. Sleep Medicine profile →
REM Sleep Behavior Disorder: Clinical, Developmental, and Neuroscience Perspectives 16 Years After its Formal Identification in SLEEP

2002 506 citations Carlos H. Schenck, Mark W. Mahowald SLEEP profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	State Dissociation, Human Behavior, and Consciousness 2011 ·Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry ·Mark W. Mahowald,Michel A. Cramer Bornemann,Carlos H. Schenck	48
2	Violence in sleep 2010 ·Brain ·Francesca Siclari,Ramin Khatami,Frank Urbaniok,Lino Nobili,Mark W. Mahowald,Carlos H. Schenck,Michel A. Cramer Bornemann,Claudio L. Bassetti	68
3	Potentially Lethal Behaviors Associated With Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Behavior Disorder: Review of the Literature and Forensic Implications 2009 ·Journal of Forensic Sciences ·Carlos H. Schenck,(unknown),Michel A. Cramer Bornemann,Mark W. Mahowald	77
4	Rapid eye movement and non-REM sleep parasomnias 2005 ·Carlos H. Schenck,Mark W. Mahowald	6
5	Sleep-related violence 2005 ·Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports ·Mark W. Mahowald,Carlos H. Schenck,Michel A. Cramer Bornemann	26
6	Parasomnias 2004 ·Medical Clinics of North America ·Mark W. Mahowald	10
7	Parasomnias 2004 ·Seminars in Neurology ·Mark W. Mahowald,(unknown),Carlos H. Schenck	17
8	Clinical caveat: prior sleep deprivation can affect the MSLT for days 2003 ·Sleep Medicine ·Tariq Janjua,(unknown),Michel Cramer–Bornemann,(unknown),Mark W. Mahowald	14
9	Did this father's sleep apnea contribute to the inadvertent death of his infant son? 2002 ·Sleep Medicine ·Mark W. Mahowald,Michel Cramer–Bornemann,(unknown),Tariq Janjua,(unknown),(unknown)	3
10	REM Sleep Behavior Disorder: Clinical, Developmental, and Neuroscience Perspectives 16 Years After its Formal Identification in SLEEPbreakdown → 2002 ·SLEEP ·Carlos H. Schenck,Mark W. Mahowald	506
11	Comparative efficacy of zolpidem and temazepam in transient insomnia 2001 ·Human Psychopharmacology Clinical and Experimental ·Milton K. Erman,C. W. Erwin,Francis Gengo,Andrew O. Jamieson,Hélio Lemmi,Mark W. Mahowald,Quentin R. Regestein,Thomas Roth,(unknown),Martin B. Scharf,Gerald W. Vogel,James K. Walsh,J. Catesby Ware	29
12	Sleep in a community sample of elderly war veterans with and without posttraumatic stress disorder 2000 ·Biological Psychiatry ·Brian Engdahl,Raina Eberly,Thomas D. Hurwitz,Mark W. Mahowald,(unknown)	91
13	A Parasomnia Overlap Disorder Involving Sleepwalking, Sleep Terrors, and REM Sleep Behavior Disorder in 33 Polysomnographically Confirmed Cases 1997 ·SLEEP ·Carlos H. Schenck,Jeffrey L. Boyd,Mark W. Mahowald	142
14	REM SLEEP PARASOMNIAS 1996 ·Neurologic Clinics ·Carlos H. Schenck,Mark W. Mahowald	60
15	Prominent Eye Movements During NREM Sleep and REM Sleep Behavior Disorder Associated with Fluoxetine Treatment of Depression and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder 1992 ·SLEEP ·Carlos H. Schenck,Mark W. Mahowald,Suck Won Kim,Kevin O’Connor,Thomas D. Hurwitz	164
16	Injurious sleep behavior disorders (parasomnias) affecting patients on intensive care units 1991 ·Intensive Care Medicine ·Carlos H. Schenck,Mark W. Mahowald	49
17	Things That Go Bump in the Night 1990 ·Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology ·Mark W. Mahowald,Milton G. Ettinger	37
18	A Note on the Thom Isomorphism 1981 ·Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society ·Mark W. Mahowald,Nigel Ray	2
19	On the Double Suspension Homomorphism 1975 ·Transactions of the American Mathematical Society ·Mark W. Mahowald	7
20	Quasi-Barrelled Locally Convex Spaces 1960 ·Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society ·Mark W. Mahowald,(unknown)	2

About Mark W. Mahowald

Mark W. Mahowald is a scholar working on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Endocrine and Autonomic Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience, having authored 111 papers that have together received 6.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Sleep and Wakefulness Research (69 papers), Sleep and related disorders (46 papers) and Neuroscience of respiration and sleep (22 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (2.8k citations), Cognitive Neuroscience (3.9k citations) and Endocrine and Autonomic Systems (1.3k citations). Mark W. Mahowald has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Japan and Canada. Frequent co-authors include Carlos H. Schenck, Scott R. Bundlie, Milton G. Ettinger, Bradley F. Boeve, Thomas D. Hurwitz, Michel A. Cramer Bornemann, Gerald M. Rosen, George S. Goding, Isabelle Arnulf and Jeffrey L. Boyd. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, New England Journal of Medicine and Brain.

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