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Overview

Yves Dauvilliers is affiliated with the University of Montpellier in France. Their research spans several disciplines focused primarily on sleep science and neuroscience. They have contributed extensively to the understanding of sleep and related disorders, combining insights from medicine, psychology, and neuroscience.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology
  • Medicine

Within these fields, their work branches into specific subfields such as:

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

The principal research topics covered in their publications encompass:

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

Among their recent published works are:

  • "Pitolisant for Daytime Sleepiness in Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea Who Refuse Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Treatment. A Randomized Trial" (2020) in American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  • "Insomnia, anxiety, and depression during the COVID-19 pandemic: an international collaborative study" (2021) in Sleep Medicine
  • "Restless legs syndrome" (2021) in Nature Reviews Disease Primers
  • "Diagnosis of central disorders of hypersomnolence: A reappraisal by European experts" (2020) in Sleep Medicine Reviews
  • "Understanding and approaching excessive daytime sleepiness" (2022) in The Lancet

Dauvilliers frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • SLEEP
  • Médecine du Sommeil
  • Neurology
  • Sleep Medicine
  • Journal of Sleep Research

Among their frequent co-authors are:

  • Lucie Barateau
  • Giuseppe Plazzi
  • Isabelle Jaussent
  • Sofiène Chenini
  • Isabelle Arnulf

Best Publications

  • National Sleep Foundation's sleep quality recommendations: first report.

    Maurice Ohayon;Emerson M. Wickwire;Max Hirshkowitz;Max Hirshkowitz;Steven M. Albert

  • Risk and predictors of dementia and parkinsonism in idiopathic REM sleep behaviour disorder: a multicentre study

    Ronald B Postuma;Alex Iranzo;Michele Hu;Birgit Högl

  • Narcolepsy with cataplexy

    Yves Dauvilliers;Isabelle Arnulf;Emmanuel Mignot

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

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

  • REM sleep behaviour disorder.

    Yves Dauvilliers;Carlos H. Schenck;Ronald B. Postuma;Alex Iranzo

  • Age at onset of narcolepsy in two large populations of patients in France and Quebec

    Y. Dauvilliers;J. Montplaisir;N. Molinari;B. Carlander

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

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

  • Clinicopathologic correlations in 172 cases of rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder with or without a coexisting neurologic disorder.

    B. F. Boeve;M. H. Silber;T. J. Ferman;S. C. Lin

  • 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

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

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

  • CSF hypocretin-1 levels in narcolepsy, Kleine-Levin syndrome, and other hypersomnias and neurological conditions

    Y Dauvilliers;C R Baumann;B Carlander;M Bischof

  • INSOMNIA AND DAYTIME SLEEPINESS ARE RISK FACTORS FOR DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS IN THE ELDERLY

    Isabelle Jaussent;Jean Bouyer;Marie-Laure Ancelin;Tasnime Akbaraly

  • 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

  • Risk factors for neurodegeneration in idiopathic rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder: A multicenter study

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

  • Insomnia Symptoms in Older Adults: Associated Factors and Gender Differences

    Isabelle Jaussent;Yves Dauvilliers;Marie-Laure Ancelin;Jean-François Dartigues

  • Hypertension and sleep: overview of a tight relationship.

    Jean-Louis Pepin;Anne-Laure Borel;Renaud Tamisier;Jean-Philippe Baguet

  • 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

  • Insomnia, anxiety, and depression during the COVID-19 pandemic: an international collaborative study.

    Charles M. Morin;Bjørn Bjorvatn;Frances Chung;Brigitte Holzinger

  • AN INVERSE AGONIST OF THE HISTAMINE H3-RECEPTOR IMPROVES WAKEFULNESS IN NARCOLEPSY: STUDIES IN OREXIN-/- MICE AND PATIENTS

    Jian Sheng Lin;Yves Dauvilliers;Isabelle Arnulf;Hélène Bastuji

  • Polysomnographic diagnosis of idiopathic REM sleep behavior disorder.

    Jacques Montplaisir;Jean-Francois Gagnon;Maria Livia Fantini;Ronald B. Postuma

  • Energy cost of walking and gait instability in healthy 65- and 80-yr-olds

    Davide Malatesta;David Simar;Yves Dauvilliers;Robin Candau

  • A randomized study of solriamfetol for excessive sleepiness in narcolepsy.

    Michael J. Thorpy;Colin Shapiro;Geert Mayer;Bruce C. Corser

  • Safety and efficacy of pitolisant on cataplexy in patients with narcolepsy: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.

    Zoltan Szakacs;Yves Dauvilliers;Vladimir Mikhaylov;Irina Poverennova

Frequent Co-Authors

Isabelle Arnulf
Isabelle Arnulf Sorbonne University
Giuseppe Plazzi
Giuseppe Plazzi University of Bologna
Ziv Gan-Or
Ziv Gan-Or McGill University
Guy A. Rouleau
Guy A. Rouleau Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Jacques Montplaisir
Jacques Montplaisir University of Montreal
Birgit Högl
Birgit Högl Innsbruck Medical University
Ronald B. Postuma
Ronald B. Postuma McGill University
Mehdi Tafti
Mehdi Tafti University of Lausanne
Geert Mayer
Geert Mayer Philipp University of Marburg
Sophie Bayard
Sophie Bayard Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier

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