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Sleep and Epilepsy Unit – Gregorio Marañón University Hospital- Complutense University of Madrid (UCM)

Sleep and Epilepsy Unit - Gregorio Marañón University Hospital- Complutense University of Madrid (UCM)

Clinical Neurophysiology
9-Gregorio-Marañón-University-Hospital

Sleep and Epilepsy Unit

Contact: Rosa  
Peraita-Adrados
Position: Head Sleep Unit
Address: Dr. Esquerdo, 46, 28007
City: Madrid
Country: Spain
Phone: +34 91 4265187; +34
Contact Email: mariarosa.peraita@salud.madrid.org
Website: http://www.madrid.org/cs/Satellite?pagename=HospitalGregorioMaranon/Page/HGMA_home
RESEARCH DOMAIN: Clinical
KEYWORDS: Sleep and Medical Disorders, Genetics of Sleep, Paediatric Sleep Disorders, Neurological Sleep Disorders
Laboratory Description:

Sleep and respiration ontogeny
SIDS, ALTE (arousal mechanisms, CAP)
OSA in children (comorbidities)
OSA in adults. CPAP and BiPAP titration.
Nocturnal seizures in children
Parasomnias. RSBD
Insomnia
Hypersomnias of central origin: Kleine-Levin Syndrome
Narcolepsy-Cataplexy (Genetics, immunogenetics, comorbidities)
Sleep and Multiple Sclerosis
RLS in blood donors
RLS and Hyperferritinemia; RLS and DIOS
video-PSG (VPSG)
video-EEG-PSG
EEG

Additional Descriptors, Keywords:

EEG, Video-EEG; Video-Polysomnography, MSLT
Circadian sleep disorders: shift workers

KEY Publications of the Laboratory:

infant, cyclic alternating pattern, arousal, sleep,apparent life-epilepsy in chilhood, nocturnal frontal lobe seizures (NFLE), parasomnias, sleep disorders, video-EEG-PSG recordings, threatening event, child development, clinical neurophysiology,
high serum ferritin, normal iron, periodic leg movements (PLMS), RLS, video-polisomnography, chilhood and adolescent sporadic narcolepsy-cataplexy, diagnosis,treatment, familial narcolepsy-cataplexy, genetics, Kleine-Levin Syndrome, immunogenetics.

Current Announcements:

No staff vacancies

10th Edition Master online Sleep: Physiology and Medicine (in Spanish and Portuguese): http://formacion.viguera.com/sueno-2016/

COLLABORATIONS:

  • PhD, MD Antonio Vela-Bueno Professor of Psychiatry Autonomous University of Madrid
  • PhD, MD Marisa Pedemonte Professor of Physiology CLAEH School of Medicine and Directyor Sleep Disorders Center, Punta del Este, Uruguay
  • PhD, MD Hyun Hor Postdoctoral fellow Center for Genomics Regulation. Barcelona
  • PhD, MD Luis Gutierrez-Solana Head Neuropediatric Division Division of Neuropediatrics. University Hospital "Niño Jesús", Madrid
  • PhD, MD Silvia Miano Research 1Department of Pediatrics, Sleep Disease Centre, University of Rome La Sapienza-S. Andrea Hospital, Rome, Italy
  • PhD José-Luis Vicario Head Histocompatibility Laboratory Histocompatibility, Blood Center of the Community of Madrid
  • PhD Mehdi Tafti Professor of Genetics Center for Integrative Genomics (CIG) University of Lausanne, Switzerland
  • PhD, MD Celso Arango Professor of Psychiatry Adolescents Unit- Psyuchiatry Department-University Hospital Gregorio Marañón