About me

I am a third year PhD student at the University Hospital of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy. My main research focus lies on non-suicidal self-injury and suicidality in at-risk adolescents with the aim of improving short-term prediction and early detection of suicidal crises and suicide attempts. I follow a multi-method/multi-informant approach and currently work with intensive longitudinal data collected in adolescents, parents, and therapists (ecological momentary assessment, passive mobile sensing), structured clinical assessments, and biomarkers. I am particularly interested in the potential digital tools and big data have for advancing mental health research.

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2024

Gutierrez Herrera, Carolina; Tarokh, Leila (2024). A Thalamocortical Perspective on Sleep Spindle Alterations in Neurodevelopmental Disorders. Current sleep medicine reports, 10(2), pp. 103-118. Springer 10.1007/s40675-024-00284-x

2023

Castiglione, Chiara Emilia Gaia; Markovic, Andjela; Salvatore, Vanessa; Kaess, Michael; Tarokh, Leila (9 October 2023). Slow Wave Activity: Difference Between Unmedicated Adolescents with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) and Healthy Controls (Unpublished). In: SSBP 42nd Annual Meeting. Bern, Schweiz. 09.11.2023.

Castiglione, Chiara Emilia Gaia; Harris, Kristina; Gardisar, M; Kaess, Michael; Tarokh, Leila (October 2023). A Behavioural Intervention to Improve Sleep and Mental Health in Adolescent Depression (Unpublished). In: eSleep ESRS - Virtual Congress. online. 04.-06.10.2023.

Züst, Marc Alain; Mikutta, Christian; Omlin, Ximena Tamara; DeStefani, Tatjana; Wunderlin, Marina; Zeller, Céline Jacqueline; Fehér, Daniel Kristoffer; Hertenstein, Elisabeth; Schneider, Carlotta L; Teunissen, Charlotte Elisabeth; Tarokh, Leila; Klöppel, Stefan; Feige, Bernd; Riemann, Dieter; Nissen, Christoph (2023). The hierarchy of coupled sleep oscillations reverses with aging in humans. The Journal of neuroscience, 43(36), pp. 6268-6279. Society for Neuroscience 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0586-23.2023

Castiglione, Chiara Emilia Gaia; Harris, Kristina; Gardisar, M; Kaess, Michael; Tarokh, Leila (31 August 2023). Adolescent Depression: Does A Behavioral Intervention help improving Sleep and Mental Health? (Unpublished). In: Annual Meeting SSSSC. Genf, Schweiz. 31.08.2023.

Fehér, Kristoffer D; Omlin, Ximena; Tarokh, Leila; Schneider, Carlotta L; Morishima, Yosuke; Züst, Marc A; Wunderlin, Marina; König, Thomas; Hertenstein, Elisabeth; Ellenberger, Benjamin; Ruch, Simon; Schmidig, Flavio; Mikutta, Christian; Trinca, Ersilia; Senn, Walter; Feige, Bernd; Klöppel, Stefan; Nissen, Christoph (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. Wiley-Blackwell 10.1111/jsr.13846

Castiglione-Fontanellaz, Chiara E G; Schaufler, Samira; Wild, Salome; Hamann, Christoph; Kaess, Michael; Tarokh, Leila (2023). Sleep regularity in healthy adolescents: Associations with sleep duration, sleep quality, and mental health. Journal of sleep research, 32(4), e13865. Wiley-Blackwell 10.1111/jsr.13865

Reynolds, Alexandria M; Spaeth, Andrea M; Hale, Lauren; Williamson, Ariel A; LeBourgeois, Monique K; Wong, Sachi D; Hartstein, Lauren E; Levenson, Jessica C; Kwon, Misol; Hart, Chantelle N; Greer, Ashley; Richardson, Cele E; Gradisar, Michael; Clementi, Michelle A; Simon, Stacey L; Reuter-Yuill, Lilith M; Picchietti, Daniel L; Wild, Salome Johanna Elisabeth; Tarokh, Leila; Sexton-Radek, Kathy; ... (2023). Pediatric Sleep: Current Knowledge, Gaps, and Opportunities for the Future. Sleep, 46(7) Oxford University Press 10.1093/sleep/zsad060

Castiglione, Christian David; Schaufler, S; Wild, Salome Johanna Elisabeth; Hamann, Christoph; Tarokh, Leila (June 2023). Sleep Regularity in Healthy Adolescents and its Association with Sleep Quality and Mental Health (Unpublished). In: eSleep ESRS - Virtual Congress. online. 04.-06.10.2023.

Dimitriades, Maria E; Markovic, Andjela; Gefferie, Silvano R; Buckley, Ashura; Driver, David I; Rapoport, Judith L; Nosadini, Margherita; Rostasy, Kevin; Sartori, Stefano; Suppiej, Agnese; Kurth, Salome; Franscini, Maurizia; Walitza, Susanne; Huber, Reto; Tarokh, Leila; Bölsterli, Bigna K; Gerstenberg, Miriam (2023). Sleep spindles across youth affected by schizophrenia or anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate-receptor encephalitis. Frontiers in psychiatry, 14(1055459), p. 1055459. Frontiers 10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1055459

Nguyen, Thomas P; Lerch, Stefan; Maggetti, Alessia; Reichl, Corinna; Tarokh, Leila; Kaess, Michael (2023). The relationship between sleep disturbance and self-harming behaviours in high-risk clinical adolescents. Journal of psychiatric research, 158, pp. 81-87. Elsevier 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2022.12.034

2022

Fontanellaz-Castiglione, Chiara Emilia Gaia; Gradisar, M; Kaess, Michael; Tarokh, Leila (2 November 2022). A Behavioral Intervention to Improve Sleep and Mental Health in Adolescent Depression (Unpublished). In: 26. Berner Schlaf-Wach-Epilepsie Tage.

Studler, Mirjam; Gianotti, Lorena R. R.; Koch, Katharina; Hausfeld, Jan; Tarokh, Leila; Maric, Angelina; Knoch, Daria (29 September 2022). Local slow-wave activity in regular sleep is associated with individual risk preferences (Unpublished). In: 26th Congress of the European Sleep Research Society. 29.09.2022.

Studler, Mirjam; Gianotti, Lorena; Koch, Katharina Sophia; Hausfeld, Jan; Tarokh, Leila; Maric, Angelina; Knoch, Daria (28 September 2022). Local slow-wave activity in regular sleep is associated with individual risk preferences (Unpublished). In: 26th Congress of the European Sleep Research Society. Athen. 28.09.2022.

Fontanellaz-Castiglione, C; Wild, S; Schaufler, S; Hamann, C; Kaess, M; Tarokh, L (27 September 2022). Sleep regularity in healthy adolescents and its association with depressiveness and mental health (Unpublished). In: 26th Congress of the European Sleep Research Society. Athen, Griechenland. 27.09.-30.09.2022.

Markovic, Andjela; Kaess, Michael; Tarokh, Leila (2022). Heritability of REM sleep neurophysiology in adolescence. Translational psychiatry, 12(1), p. 399. Nature Publishing Group 10.1038/s41398-022-02106-6

Fontanellaz-Castiglione, C; Wild, S; Schaufler, S; Hamann, C; Kaess, M; Tarokh, L (9 September 2022). Sleep Regularity in Healthy Adolescents: Associations with Sleep Duration, Sleep Quality and Depressive Symptoms (Unpublished). In: 17th Annual Meeting Clinical Neuroscience Bern. Bern, Schweiz. 09.09.2022.

Fontanellaz-Castiglione, Chiara Emilia Gaia; Wild, Salome Johanna Elisabeth; Schaufler, S; Hamann, C; Kaess, Michael; Tarokh, Leila (2 September 2022). The Association of Sleep Regularity, Depressiveness and Mental Health in Healthy Adolescents (Unpublished). In: Jahreskongress der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie und Psychotherapie. Zürich, Schweiz. 02.09.2022.

Fontanellaz-Castiglione, Chiara Emilia Gaia; Rogic, J; Kaess, Michael; Tarokh, Leila (2 September 2022). Sleep and depressive symptoms - Is there a longitudinal relationship in adolescence? (Unpublished). In: Jahreskongress der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie und Psychotherapie. Zürich, Schweiz. 02.09.2022.

Fontanellaz-Castiglione, Chiara Emilia Gaia; Markovic, Andjela; Salvatore, Vanessa; Kaess, Michael; Tarokh, Leila (2 September 2022). Slow wave activity in adolescents with major depressive disorder (Unpublished). In: Jahreskongress der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie und Psychotherapie. Zürich, Schweiz. 02.09.2022.

Fontanellaz-Castiglione, Chiara Emilia Gaia; Rogic, J; Kaess, Michael; Tarokh, Leila (September 2022). Is there a longitudinal relationship between sleep and depressive symptoms in adolescence? (Unpublished). In: 26th Congress of the European Sleep Research Society. Athen, Griechenland. 27.09.-30.09.2022.

Fontanellaz-Castiglione, Chiara Emilia Gaia; Markovic, Andjela; Salvatore, Vanessa; Kaess, Michael; Tarokh, Leila (September 2022). Diminished slow wave activity in un-medicated adolescents with major depressive disorder (Unpublished). In: 26th Congress of the European Sleep Research Society. Athen, Griechenland. 27.09.-30.09.2022.

Castiglione-Fontanellaz, Chiara E G; Timmers, Tammy T; Lerch, Stefan; Hamann, Christoph; Kaess, Michael; Tarokh, Leila (2022). Sleep and physical activity: results from a long-term actigraphy study in adolescents. BMC public health, 22(1), p. 1328. BioMed Central 10.1186/s12889-022-13657-0

Fontanellaz-Castiglione, Chiara Emilia Gaia; Tarokh, Leila (23 June 2022). Nature and Nurture: Genetic Contribution to Interindividual Variability in Sleep and circadian Rhythms (Unpublished). In: Sleep & Health Symposium 2022. Zürich, Schweiz. 23.06.2022.

Studler, Mirjam; Gianotti, Lorena R. R.; Koch, Katharina; Hausfeld, Jan; Tarokh, Leila; Maric, Angelina; Knoch, Daria (10 June 2022). Local slow wave activity in regular sleep reveals individual risk preferences (Unpublished). In: Young Swiss Society for Neuroscience. 10.06.2022.

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