Danish Center for Sleep Medicine - Department of Clinical Neurophysiology
Danish Center for Sleep Medicine
CURRENT ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The center is a national center which receives patient from all part of Denmark, with all diagnoses of sleep areas including children and adults.
Main clinical areas includes sleep and neurological diseases including neurodegenerative disorders, parasomnias, epilepsy, movement disorders etc, sleep disordered breathing, circadian disorders and insomnias.
The laboratory include 6 in-hospital video-PSG beds in addition to the epilepsy monitoring unit with in total 8 beds. In addition full equipment facilities for ambulatory monitoring (PSG, cardio-respiratory monitoring, actigraphy etc.).
Treatment includes all types of positive airway pressure, medical treatment, psychology etc.
The laboratory present facilities for blood samples, saliva, spinal-fluid. The hospital includes full facilities for other diagnostic procedures (physiology, biochemetry, molecular biology, magnetic resonance, DAT scans etc.). Clinical departments includes neurology, psychiatry, internal medicine etc.
Epidemiology
Clinical research
Human sleep research
Pathophysiology of sleep disorders
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Knudsen S, Jennum PJ, Alving J, Sheikh SP, Gammeltoft S. Validation of the ICSD-2 criteria for CSF hypocretin-1 measurements in the diagnosis of narcolepsy in the Danish population. Sleep. 2010 Feb;33(2):169-76.
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