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Gert Jan Lammers

Gert Jan Lammers

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Neuroscience

D-Index
69
Citations
20837
World Ranking
2593
National Ranking
84

Overview

Gert Jan Lammers is affiliated with Leiden University in the Netherlands and conducts research primarily in the fields of neuroscience and psychology. Their work focuses extensively on topics related to sleep and wakefulness, encompassing sleep disorders, circadian rhythms, and related physiological and psychological processes.

The main fields of study for Lammers include:

  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology

Their subfields of study further specify areas within these disciplines, such as:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Endocrine and Autonomic Systems
  • Physiology
  • Epidemiology

Lammers' research covers several main topics:

  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • Sleep and related disorders
  • Circadian rhythm and melatonin
  • Restless Legs Syndrome Research
  • Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue
  • Obstructive Sleep Apnea Research
  • Regulation of Appetite and Obesity

The scientist has published numerous papers in notable venues, frequently contributing to:

  • Sleep Medicine
  • SLEEP
  • Journal of Sleep Research
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Sleep Medicine Reviews

Selected recent publications authored or co-authored by Gert Jan Lammers include:

  • Diagnosis of central disorders of hypersomnolence: A reappraisal by European experts, 2020, Sleep Medicine Reviews
  • European guideline and expert statements on the management of narcolepsy in adults and children, 2021, European Journal of Neurology
  • European guideline and expert statements on the management of narcolepsy in adults and children, 2021, Journal of Sleep Research
  • Safety and efficacy of pitolisant in children aged 6 years or older with narcolepsy with or without cataplexy: a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial, 2023, The Lancet Neurology
  • Vigilance: discussion of related concepts and proposal for a definition, 2021, Sleep Medicine

Frequent collaborators in Lammers' research include:

  • Rolf Fronczek
  • Sebastiaan Overeem
  • Yves Dauvilliers
  • Claudio L. Bassetti
  • Ramin Khatami

Best Publications

  • A mutation in a case of early onset narcolepsy and a generalized absence of hypocretin peptides in human narcoleptic brains

    Christelle Peyron;Juliette Faraco;William Rogers;Beth Ripley

  • Hypocretin (orexin) deficiency in human narcolepsy

    Seiji Nishino;Beth Ripley;Sebastiaan Overeem;Gert Jan Lammers

  • The role of cerebrospinal fluid hypocretin measurement in the diagnosis of narcolepsy and other hypersomnias.

    Emmanuel Mignot;Gert Jan Lammers;Beth Ripley;Michele Okun

  • Narcolepsy - clinical spectrum, aetiopathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment.

    Claudio L. A. Bassetti;Antoine Adamantidis;Denis Burdakov;Denis Burdakov;Denis Burdakov;Fang Han

  • Low cerebrospinal fluid hypocretin (orexin) and altered energy homeostasis in human narcolepsy

    Seiji Nishino;Beth Ripley;Sebastiaan Overeem;Sebastiaan Overeem;Sona Nevsimalova

  • A Single Night of Partial Sleep Deprivation Induces Insulin Resistance in Multiple Metabolic Pathways in Healthy Subjects

    Esther Donga;Marieke van Dijk;J. Gert van Dijk;Nienke R. Biermasz

  • CSF hypocretin/orexin levels in narcolepsy and other neurological conditions.

    B Ripley;S Overeem;N Fujiki;S Nevsimalova

  • Narcolepsy: clinical features, new pathophysiologic insights, and future perspectives.

    Sebastiaan Overeem;Emmanuel Mignot;J. GertvanDijk;Gert Jan Lammers

  • Hypocretin (orexin) loss in Parkinson's disease

    Rolf Fronczek;Sebastiaan Overeem;Sandy Y Y Lee;Ingrid M Hegeman

  • Pitolisant versus placebo or modafinil in patients with narcolepsy : a double-blind, randomised trial

    Yves Dauvilliers;Claudio Bassetti;Gert Jan Lammers;Isabelle Arnulf

  • EFNS guidelines on management of narcolepsy.

    M. Billiard;C. Bassetti;Y. Dauvilliers;L. Dolenc-Groselj

  • Elevated Tribbles homolog 2–specific antibody levels in narcolepsy patients

    Vesna Cvetkovic-Lopes;Laurence Bayer;Stéphane Dorsaz;Stéphanie Maret

  • The incidence of narcolepsy in Europe: Before, during, and after the influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 pandemic and vaccination campaigns

    Leonoor Wijnans;Coralie Lecomte;Corinne de Vries;Daniel Weibel

  • Hypocretin (orexin) loss in Alzheimer's disease.

    Rolf Fronczek;Rolf Fronczek;Sarita van Geest;Sarita van Geest;Marijke Frölich;Sebastiaan Overeem

  • Transesophageal echocardiography is superior to transthoracic echocardiography in management of patients of any age with transient ischemic attack or stroke.

    Sebastiaan F.T.M. de Bruijn;Willem R.P. Agema;Gert Jan Lammers;Ernst E. van der Wall

  • Gammahydroxybutyrate and narcolepsy : a double-blind placebo-controlled study

    G. J. Lammers;J. Arends;A. C. Declerck;M. D. Ferrari

  • ImmunoChip Study Implicates Antigen Presentation to T Cells in Narcolepsy

    Juliette Faraco;Ling Lin;Birgitte Rahbek Kornum;Birgitte Rahbek Kornum;Eimear E. Kenny

  • Clinical, polysomnographic and genome-wide association analyses of narcolepsy with cataplexy: a European Narcolepsy Network study

    Gianina Luca;José Haba-Rubio;Yves Dauvilliers;Gert-Jan Lammers

  • Hypocretin deficiency in narcoleptic humans is associated with abdominal obesity.

    Simon W Kok;Sebastiaan Overeem;Tommy L S Visscher;Gert Jan Lammers

  • Genome-wide association study identifies new HLA class II haplotypes strongly protective against narcolepsy

    Hyun Hor;Hyun Hor;Zoltán Kutalik;Zoltán Kutalik;Yves Dauvilliers;Armand Valsesia;Armand Valsesia;Armand Valsesia

  • Partial Sleep Restriction Decreases Insulin Sensitivity in Type 1 Diabetes

    Esther Donga;Marieke G Van Dijk;J. Gert van Dijk;Nienke R. Biermasz

  • Sleep and circadian rhythm alterations correlate with depression and cognitive impairment in Huntington's disease.

    N. Ahmad Aziz;Galia V. Anguelova;Johan Marinus;Gert Jan Lammers

  • The clinical features of cataplexy: A questionnaire study in narcolepsy patients with and without hypocretin-1 deficiency

    Sebastiaan Overeem;Sofie J. van Nues;Wendy L. van der Zande;Claire E. Donjacour

  • Hypocretin-1 CSF levels in anti-Ma2 associated encephalitis

    S. Overeem;J. Dalmau;L. Bataller;S. Nishino

Frequent Co-Authors

Yves Dauvilliers
Yves Dauvilliers University of Montpellier
Claudio L. Bassetti
Claudio L. Bassetti University of Bern
J.G. van Dijk
J.G. van Dijk Leiden University
Mehdi Tafti
Mehdi Tafti University of Lausanne
Poul Jennum
Poul Jennum University of Copenhagen
Birgit Högl
Birgit Högl Innsbruck Medical University
Johannes Mathis
Johannes Mathis University of Bern
Joan Santamaria
Joan Santamaria University of Barcelona
Dick F. Swaab
Dick F. Swaab Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Roland D. Thijs
Roland D. Thijs Leiden University

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