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Overview

Poul Jennum is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Their research spans multiple disciplines including medicine, neuroscience, and psychology, with a focus on the intersections of sleep and related disorders.

The main fields of study in their work include:

  • Medicine
  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology

Their research also covers key subfields such as:

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

Jennum's contributions delve into several specific topics within sleep research, such as:

  • Sleep and related disorders
  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • Obstructive Sleep Apnea Research
  • Neuroscience of respiration and sleep
  • Circadian rhythm and melatonin
  • Restless Legs Syndrome Research
  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments

A number of frequent co-authors collaborate with Jennum, reflecting ongoing partnerships in their research efforts. These colleagues include Emmanuel Mignot, Helge B. D. Sørensen, Andreas Brink-Kjær, Ole Birger Pedersen, and Christian Erikstrup.

Their work has been published extensively in several scientific journals, with notable frequent venues being:

  • SLEEP
  • Sleep Medicine
  • Journal of Sleep Research
  • Sleep Medicine Reviews
  • Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine

Representative recent publications by Jennum highlight their research focus on sleep disorders and genomics, as illustrated by the following papers:

  • The European Insomnia Guideline: An update on the diagnosis and treatment of insomnia 2023 (Journal of Sleep Research, 2023)
  • The sequences of 150,119 genomes in the UK Biobank (Nature, 2022)
  • U-Sleep: resilient high-frequency sleep staging (npj Digital Medicine, 2021)
  • Diagnosis of central disorders of hypersomnolence: A reappraisal by European experts (Sleep Medicine Reviews, 2020)
  • A genome-wide meta-analysis yields 46 new loci associating with biomarkers of iron homeostasis (Communications Biology, 2021)

Best Publications

  • The size and burden of mental disorders and other disorders of the brain in Europe 2010

    H.U. Wittchen;F. Jacobi;J. Rehm;J. Rehm;Anders Gustavsson

  • Cost of disorders of the brain in Europe 2010

    Anders Gustavsson;Mikael Svensson;Frank Jacobi;Christer Allgulander

  • European guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of insomnia

    Dieter Riemann;Chiara Baglioni;Claudio Bassetti;Bjørn Bjorvatn

  • The standardisation of terminology in nocturia: report from the Standardisation Sub-committee of the International Continence Society.

    Philip van Kerrebroeck;Paul Abrams;David Chaikin;Jenny Donovan

  • A single-question screen for rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder: a multicenter validation study.

    Ronald B. Postuma;Isabelle Arnulf;Birgit Hogl;Alex Iranzo

  • Epidemiology of sleep apnoea/hypopnoea syndrome and sleep-disordered breathing

    P. Jennum;Renata Riha

  • Sleep-spindle detection: crowdsourcing and evaluating performance of experts, non-experts and automated methods

    Simon C. Warby;Sabrina Lyngbye Wendt;Peter Welinder;Emil Gs Munk

  • Neural network analysis of sleep stages enables efficient diagnosis of narcolepsy

    Jens B. Stephansen;Jens B. Stephansen;Alexander N. Olesen;Alexander N. Olesen;Mads Olsen;Mads Olsen;Aditya Ambati

  • Intracranial Pressure and Obstructive Sleep Apnea

    Poul Jennum;Svend Erik Børgesen

  • Definition, discrimination, diagnosis and treatment of central breathing disturbances during sleep

    Winfried J. Randerath;Johan A. Verbraecken;Stefan Andreas;Michael Arzt

  • Narcolepsy as an autoimmune disease: the role of H1N1 infection and vaccination.

    Markku Partinen;Birgitte Rahbek Kornum;Giuseppe Plazzi;Poul Jennum

  • Rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder: Devising controlled active treatment studies for symptomatic and neuroprotective therapy-a consensus statement from the International Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Behavior Disorder Study Group

    C. H. Schenck;J. Y. Montplaisir;B. Frauscher;B. Hogl

  • U-Sleep: resilient high-frequency sleep staging

    Mathias Perslev;Sune Darkner;Lykke Kempfner;Miki Nikolic

  • 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

  • Rapid eye movement sleep disturbances in Huntington disease.

    Isabelle Arnulf;Jørgen Nielsen;Ebba Lohmann;Johannes Schieffer

  • Common variants in P2RY11 are associated with narcolepsy

    Birgitte R Kornum;Minae Kawashima;Minae Kawashima;Juliette Faraco;Ling Lin

  • ImmunoChip Study Implicates Antigen Presentation to T Cells in Narcolepsy

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

  • Epidemiology of snoring and obstructive sleep apnoea in a Danish population, age 30-60.

    Poul Jennum;Anette Sjøl

  • Speech localization using repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation.

    Poul Jennum;Lars Friberg;Anders Fuglsang-Frederiksen;Mogens Dam

  • 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

  • Predictors of Hypocretin (Orexin) Deficiency in Narcolepsy Without Cataplexy

    Olivier Andlauer;Olivier Andlauer;Hyatt Moore;Seung Chul Hong;Yves Dauvilliers

  • Snoring, Sleep Apnoea and Cardiovascular Risk Factors: The MONICA II Study

    Poul Jennum;Anette Sjøl

  • Music for insomnia in adults

    Kira V Jespersen;Julian Koenig;Poul Jennum;Peter Vuust

  • Sleep and other symptoms in primary fibromyalgia and in healthy controls.

    P. Jennum;A. M. Drewes;A. Andreasen;Kim Dremstrup Nielsen

  • Anti-Tribbles homolog 2 (TRIB2) autoantibodies in narcolepsy are associated with recent onset of cataplexy.

    Minae Kawashima;Ling Lin;Susumu Tanaka;Poul Jennum

  • Rapid eye movement sleep behaviour disorder in patients with narcolepsy is associated with hypocretin-1 deficiency

    Stine Knudsen;Steen Gammeltoft;Poul J Jennum

  • The social and economic consequences of epilepsy: A controlled national study

    Poul Jennum;Jesper Gyllenborg;Jakob Kjellberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Yves Dauvilliers
Yves Dauvilliers University of Montpellier
Birgit Högl
Birgit Högl Innsbruck Medical University
Isabelle Arnulf
Isabelle Arnulf Sorbonne University
Fabio Pizza
Fabio Pizza University of Bologna
Birgit Frauscher
Birgit Frauscher Duke University
Claudio L. Bassetti
Claudio L. Bassetti University of Bern
Joan Santamaria
Joan Santamaria University of Barcelona
Maurice Ptito
Maurice Ptito University of Montreal
Claudia Trenkwalder
Claudia Trenkwalder University of Göttingen
Gert Jan Lammers
Gert Jan Lammers Leiden University

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