Prof. Yves Dauvilliers is a director of the Sleep Disorders Centre, Department of Neurology, Gui de Chauliac Hospital, Montpellier since 2005, coordinator of the National Reference Network for Orphan Diseases: Narcolepsy and Idiopathic Hypersomnia.
He became a specialist in Neurology, Montpellier University, 1995, obtained univ. diploma, “Clinical Neurophysiology”, Montpellier, 1997, “Wake and Sleep”, France, 1998, wrote medical thesis, “Genetic and familial aspects of narcolepsy”, Montpellier, 2000 and PhD thesis in Neurosciences, “Neurobiology and Genetics of Narcolepsy”, Montpellier, 2004. He became a Professor of Neurology-Physiology in 2008. He obtained post doc training at Centre d’études du sommeil, Hopital du Sacré-Coeur, Montreal, Canada, 2006 and -HUG Belle Idée, Neuropsychiatric Division, Chene-Bourg, Switzerland, 1999, 2001
He serves as a reviewer for Lancet, NEJM, Brain, Annals of Neurology, Neurology, Journal of Neurology, Neuropsychiatry and Neurosurgery, Sleep, Journal of Sleep Research, Sleep Medicine, Brain, Archives of Internal Medicine, Editor in Chief for the journal: Frontiers in Neurology, Section “Sleep and Chronobiology”. He is a member of the Editorial Board for the journal: Sleep Medecine, SLEEP, Sleep Medicine Review and behavioural neurology.
He is a member of Scientific Committee of the EU NN, ESRS, SFRMS, AASM, Co-chair of the Centre of Excellence in neurodegeneration, Montpellier, Coordinator Axis Central Hypersomnia – GDR Sleep, Vice-President of EU RLS Study Group.
The main domains of his research are studies in the diagnosis, epidemiology, pathophysiology and therapy of sleep disorders related to neurological disorders including narcolepsy, hypersomnias, parasomnia, insomnia, Parkinson, Alzheimer and RLS.
Prof. Dauvilliers is a author or coauthor of 459 papers published in international and national peer-reviewed journals (including Lancet, Lancet Neurol, Science, Nature Genetic), h index: 67 WOS.