Mehdi Tafti

14.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
129 papers, 8.3k citations indexed

About

Mehdi Tafti is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Endocrine and Autonomic Systems and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Mehdi Tafti has authored 129 papers receiving a total of 8.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 91 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 57 papers in Endocrine and Autonomic Systems and 54 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Mehdi Tafti's work include Sleep and Wakefulness Research (90 papers), Sleep and related disorders (53 papers) and Circadian rhythm and melatonin (34 papers). Mehdi Tafti is often cited by papers focused on Sleep and Wakefulness Research (90 papers), Sleep and related disorders (53 papers) and Circadian rhythm and melatonin (34 papers). Mehdi Tafti collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, France and United States. Mehdi Tafti's co-authors include Paul Franken, Yves Dauvilliers, Raphaël Heinzer, José Haba‐Rubio, Péter Vollenweider, Pedro Marques‐Vidal, Martin Preisig, Gérard Waeber, Nadia Tobback and Daniela Andries and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Mehdi Tafti

125 papers receiving 8.1k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Prevalence of sleep-disordered breathing in the general population: the HypnoLaus study

2015 1.7k citations Raphaël Heinzer, Sopharat Vat et al. profile →
Narcolepsy — clinical spectrum, aetiopathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment

2019 387 citations Claudio L. Bassetti, Ramin Khatami et al. profile →

Peers

Mehdi Tafti

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Horst L. Fehm Germany

Gert Jan Lammers Netherlands

Isabelle Arnulf France

Ling Lin United States

Yoichi Ueta Japan

Tomoyuki Kuwaki Japan

Hiroshi Kadotani Japan

Geert Mayer Germany

Christian R. Baumann Switzerland

Fabio Placidi Italy

Horst L. Fehm Germany

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2.0k ×0.4

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2.3k ×0.5

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1.8k ×0.5

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1.6k ×0.6

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765 ×0.7

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Citations per year, relative to Mehdi Tafti Mehdi Tafti (= 1×) peers Horst L. Fehm

Countries citing papers authored by Mehdi Tafti

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mehdi Tafti

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mehdi Tafti

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Mehdi Tafti. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Mehdi Tafti based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Mehdi Tafti. Mehdi Tafti is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Seifinejad, Ali, Mojtaba Bandarabadi, Mehdi Tafti, et al.. (2025). Contrasting contribution of resident and repopulated brain macrophages in sustaining sleep-wake circuitry. Communications Biology. 8(1). 1339–1339. 1 indexed citations

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Stawarski, Michał, Daniel Ulrich, Jochen Schwenk, et al.. (2025). Normalization of network activity in an epilepsy model with a constitutively active GABBR2 variant. Brain.

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Tafti, Mehdi, et al.. (2022). LMOD3 gene variant in familial periodic hypersomnolence. Sleep Medicine. 91. 105–108. 6 indexed citations

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Lopez, Martin, Daniel T. Meier, Omolara O. Ogunshola, et al.. (2014). Cytokine-induced sleep: Neurons respond to TNF with production of chemokines and increased expression of Homer1a in vitro. Brain Behavior and Immunity. 47. 186–192. 20 indexed citations

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Vat, Sopharat, José Haba‐Rubio, Daniela Andries, et al.. (2013). Prevalence and predictors of positional sleep apnea in the general population. European Respiratory Journal. 42(Suppl 57). P3585–P3585. 2 indexed citations

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Vassalli, Anne, Yann Emmenegger, Sònia Jiménez, et al.. (2013). Electroencephalogram paroxysmal theta characterizes cataplexy in mice and children. Brain. 136(5). 1592–1608. 53 indexed citations

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Hor, Hyun, Luca Bartesaghi, Zoltán Kutalik, et al.. (2012). A Missense Mutation in Myelin Oligodendrocyte Glycoprotein as a Cause of Familial Narcolepsy with Cataplexy. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 91(2). 396–396. 2 indexed citations

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Heinzer, Raphaël, José Haba‐Rubio, & Mehdi Tafti. (2011). [HypnoLaus sleep cohort study].. PubMed. 7(315). 2137–1. 1 indexed citations

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Heinzer, Raphaël, José Haba‐Rubio, & Mehdi Tafti. (2011). [b]HypnoLaus[/b] : le sommeil sous la loupe. Revue Médicale Suisse. 7(315). 2137–2141. 1 indexed citations

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Heinzer, Raphaël, Daniela Andries, François Bastardot, et al.. (2011). Prevalence of sleep disordered breathing in middle-aged general population: The HypnoLaus study. European Respiratory Journal. 38(Suppl 55). 3241–3241. 2 indexed citations

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Espa, Fabrice, et al.. (2010). Pulse Wave Amplitude Drops during Sleep are Reliable Surrogate Markers of Changes in Cortical Activity. SLEEP. 33(12). 1687–1692. 43 indexed citations

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Maret, Stéphanie, Stéphane Dorsaz, Sylvain Pradervand, et al.. (2007). Homer1a is a core brain molecular correlate of sleep loss. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(50). 20090–20095. 271 indexed citations

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Dauvilliers, Yves, S. Maret, & Mehdi Tafti. (2005). Genetics of normal and pathological sleep in humans. Sleep Medicine Reviews. 9(2). 91–100. 87 indexed citations

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Dauvilliers, Yves, Jean‐Louis Blouin, Elisabeth Neidhart, et al.. (2004). A narcolepsy susceptibility locus maps to a 5Mb region of chromosome 21q. Annals of Neurology. 56(3). 382–388. 31 indexed citations

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Khatami, Ramin, Stéphanie Maret, Esther Werth, et al.. (2004). Monozygotic twins concordant for narcolepsy-cataplexy without any detectable abnormality in the hypocretin (orexin) pathway. The Lancet. 363(9416). 1199–1200. 31 indexed citations

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Dauvilliers, Yves, Bertrand Carlander, Nicolas Molinari, et al.. (2003). Month of Birth as a Risk Factor for Narcolepsy. SLEEP. 26(6). 663–665. 44 indexed citations

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Reid, Malcolm S., Seiji Nishino, Mehdi Tafti, et al.. (1998). Neuropharmacological Characterization of Basal Forebrain Cholinergic Stimulated Cataplexy in Narcoleptic Canines. Experimental Neurology. 151(1). 89–104. 29 indexed citations

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Besset, A, et al.. (1998). Homeostatic process and sleep spindles in patients with sleep-maintenance insomnia (SMI): effect of partial (21 h) sleep deprivation (PSD). Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology. 107(2). 122–132. 50 indexed citations

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Reid, Malcolm S., et al.. (1996). Local administration of dopaminergic drugs into the ventral tegmental area modulates cataplexy in the narcoleptic canine. Brain Research. 733(1). 83–100. 57 indexed citations

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Besset, A, et al.. (1993). Effets du modafinil (300 mg) sur le sommeil, la somnolence et la vigilance du narcoleptique. Neurophysiologie Clinique. 23(1). 47–60. 27 indexed citations

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