Country
Town
Institution
Chairman or Director
Initial main interest
Approximate date of first clinical polysomnography
Austria
Vienna
Dept. of Psychiatry, Vienna General Hospital
Bernd Saletu
Pharmacopsychiatry
1975
Vienna
Dept. of Neurology, Vienna General Hospital
Josef Zeitlhofer
Sleep and neurological disorders
1985
Innsbruck
Dept. of Neurology, Innsbruck University
Gerhard Bauer
Sleep and neurological disorders
Sleep related breathing disorders
1988
Austrian Society for Sleep Medicine and Sleep Research (ASRA), 1992
Journal: “Somnologie” (Journal of the German Sleep Medicine Society), 2007
Belgium
Brussels
Dept. Development and Sleep
Saint Pierre Hospital
André Kahn
Sudden infant death syndrome
Nutrition and sleep
1978
Brussels
Dept. Clin Neurophysiol, Cliniques Univ. Saint-Luc
Geneviève Aubert
Sleep related breathing disorders
1979
Liege
Dept. of Neurology, University Hospital
Georges Frank
Sleep and epilepsy
Antwerp
Dept. of Psychiatry, University Hospital
Roger Matthys
Insomnia
1979
Brussels
Dept. of Psychiatry, Erasme Hospital
Julien Mendelwicz
Sleep and psychiatric disorders
1980
Belgian Association for the Study of Sleep (BASS), 1983
Book: 25 years of Belgian Sleep (2008)
Bulgaria
Sofia
Dept. of Neurology, Alexandrovska Hospital
Alexander Alexiev
Narcolepsy
Sleep related breathing disorders
1975
Plovdiv
Dept. of Neurology, Sveti Georgi Hospital
Zacharie Zachariev
Full spectrum of sleep disorders
1984
Bulgarian Society of Sleep Medicine, 2008
Croatia
Zagreb
EEG and Clin Psychophysiol, Psychiatric Hospital Vrapce
Vera Dürrigl
Sleep and schizophrenia
Sleep and epilepsy
early 1970s
Split
Sleep laboratory, University Hospital Split
Zoran Dogas
Goran Racic
Sleep related breathing disorders
2001
Society for Sleep Medicine of the Croatian Medical Association, 1994
Czech
Prague
Dept. of Neurology 1st, Faculty of Medicine, Charles University
Bedrich Roth
Hypersomnias of central origin
1965a
Brno
Dept. of Neurology, University Hospital
Miroslav Moran
Sleep and epilepsy
Sleep related breathing disorders
1995
Prague
Prague Psychiatric Centre
Milos Matousek
Insomnia
Sleep and psychiatric disorders
1998
Plzen
Dept. of Pulmonology, University Hospital
Jana Vyskocilova
Sleep related breathing disorders
2000
Czech Sleep Research and Sleep Medicine Society, 2001
Denmark
Copenhagen
Danish Centre of Sleep Medicine
Dept. of Clin Neurophysiol, Glostrup Hospital
Gordon Wildschiödtz
Sleep and mood disorders
1981
Danish Society for Sleep Medicine, 1996
Estonia
Tartu
Sleep Disorders Centre, Psychiatry Clinic, Tartu University Hospital
Veiko Vasar
Tuuliki Hion
Full spectrum of sleep disorders
1996
Tartu
Lung Clinic, Tartu University Hospital
Enn-Jaagup Püttsepp
Erve Sooru
Sleep related breathing disorders
1997
Estonian Sleep Medicine Association (2005)
Finland
Helsinki
Dept. of Neurology, Meilahti Hospital
Markku Partinen
Hypersomnias
Snoring
1978
Turku
Dept. of Physiology, University of Turku
Jukka Alihanka
Joel Hasan
Sleep related breathing disorders
Autonomous nervous activity during sleep
1978
Helsinki
Ullanlinna Sleep Disorders Clinic
Markku Partinen
Narcolepsy
Seasonal affective disorders
1986
Tempere
Dept. of Pulmonary Medicine, Tampere University Hospital
Joel Hasan
Jaakko Herrala
Computer aided analysis of sleep
Sleep related breathing disorders
1993
Finnish Sleep Research Society (SUS), 1988
Journal: Sleep News (Uniuutiset), 1999
France
Montpellier
Dept. Clin Neurophysiol, St Charles Hospital
Pierre Passouant
Jean Cadilhac
Michel Baldy-Moulinier
Marion Delange
Epilepsy
Narcolepsy
1960
Lyon
Sleep Laboratory, Neurology Hospital
Michel Jouvet
Sleep and neurological disorders
Narcolepsy and hypersomnia
1962b
Paris
Centre for Neonatal Biological Research, Port-Royal Hospital
Colette Dreyfus-Brisac
Nicole Monod
Neonatal medicine (epilepsy, sleep related breathing disorders, sudden infant death syndrome)
1962
Strasbourg
Dept. Clin Neurophysiol, Hôpitaux Universitaires
Daniel Kurtz
Sleep related breathing disorders
1970
Paris
Dept. Clin Neurophysiol, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital
Jean Scherrer
Lucile Garma
Françoise Goldenberg
Parasomnias
Insomnia
1971
French Sleep Research and Medicine Society, 1986
Journal: Sleep Medicine, 2004
Germany
Würzburg
Dept. of Neurology, University Hospital
Uros J. Jovanovic
Sleep and neurologic disorders
Sleep and psychiatric disorders
Sleep and sexual disturbances
1964
Munich
Max Plank Institute für Psychiatry
Hartmut Schulz
Sleep structure
Sleep and depression
Narcolepsy
1972
1976
Treysa
Neurological Clinic, Hephata
Karl-Heinz
Meier-Ewert
Narcolepsy
1978
Munich
Dept. of Psychiatry, University Hospital
Eckart Rüther
Sleep and psychiatric disorders
Insomnia
1979
Marburg
Dept. of Internal Medicine, Philipps University Hospital
Jörg-Hermann Peter
Sleep related breathing disorders
1981
German Sleep Society,1992
Journal: Somnologie/Somnology, 1997
Greece
Athens
Dept. of Psychiatry, Eginition Hospital
Constantin Soldatos
Insomnia
Sleep and psychiatric disorders
1979
Thessaloniki
Dept. of Pulmonology, Papanikolaou Hospital
Dimitris Patakas
Sleep related breathing disorders
1983
Athens
Dept. of Critical Care and Pulmonary Medicine, Evangelismos Hospital
Charalampos Roussos
Sleep related breathing disorders
1990
Hellenic Sleep Research Society, 1995
Hungary
Budapest
National Institute of Neurology and Psychiatry
Péter Halasz
Sleep and epilepsy
1991
Budapest
National Institute of Neurology and Psychiatry
Army Hospital
Péter Köves
Sleep related breathing disorders
Movement disorders in sleep
1995
Budapest
Koranyi National Institute for Tuberculosis and Pulmonology
Nagy György Boszormenyi
Sleep related breathing disorders
1996
Hungarian Sleep Society, 1997
Iceland
Reykjavik
Dept. of Respiratory Medicine and Sleep, Landspital Univ. Hospital
Thorarrin Gislasson
Helgi Kristbjarnarson
Sleep related breathing disorders
1987
The Icelandic Sleep Research Society (1991)
Ireland
Dublin
Sleep Laboratory, St Vincent’s Hospital
Walter McNicholas
Sleep related breathing disorders
1984
Irish Sleep Society, 2004
Italy
Bologna
Institute of Neurology, University of Bologna
Elio Lugaresi
Sleep related movement disorders
Sleep related breathing disorders
Parasomnias
1965
Milan
Dept. of Neurology, Institute San Raffaele
Salvatore Smirne
Insomnia
Parasomnias
Sleep related breathing disorders
1969
Pisa
Institute of Neurology, University of Pisa
Alberto Muratorio
Sleep and depression, and neurological diseases
1969
Parma
Dept. of Neurology, University of Parma
Mario G. Terzano
Sleep and epilepsy
1979
Udine
Dept. of Neurology, University of Udine
Gian L. Gigli
Sleep and neurological
1981
Italian Sleep Medicine Society, 1991
Journal: AIMS Bulletin, 1995-2007, Somnomed, 2008
Lithuania
Kaunas
Dept. of Cardiology, University Hospital
Giedrius Varoneckas
Sleep and cardiovascular diseases
1984
Kaunas
Dept. of Neurology, University Hospital
Vanda Liesiene
Epilepsy
2001
Kaunas
Dept. of Pulmonology and Immunology, University Hospital
Skaidrius Miliauskas
Sleep related breathing disorders
2003
Vilnius
Centre of Neurology, Vilnius Univ. Hospital
Raminta Masaitiene
Sleep and neurological disorders
2005
Lithuanian Sleep Medicine Society, 2000
Luxembourg
Esch-sur-Alzette
Emile Mayrisch Hospital
Michel Kruger
Full spectrum of sleep disorders
1996
Luxembourg
Dept. of Neurosciences, Luxembourg Hospital
Nico Diederich
Sleep and neurological disorders
1996
Netherlands
Heeze
Centre for Sleep-Wake Disorders Kempenhaeghe
Guus Declerck
Insomnia & Narcolepsy
Sleep related breathing disorders
1994
The Hague
Dept. of Neurology and Clin Neurophysiol, Westeinde Hospital
Hilbert Kamphuisen
Full spectrum of sleep disorders
1995
Leiden
Dept. of Neurology and Clin Neurophysiol, Leiden Univ. Medical Center
Gert Jan Lammers
Gert Jan Dijk
Narcolepsy and related disorders
1995
Dutch Society for Sleep-Wake Research (NSWO), 1990
Journal: Sleep-Wake Research in the Netherlands, 1990 (one issue per year)
Norway
Bergen
Bergen Sleep Disorders Centre (private)
Several doctors
Full spectrum of sleep disorders
1998
Norwegian Competence Centre for Sleep Disorders, University of Bergen
Bjorn Bjorvatn
Full spectrum of sleep disorders
2004
Norwegian Society for Sleep Research and Sleep Medicine (2007)
Journal: SOVN, 2009 (two issues per year)
Poland
Warsaw
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