Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences
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Research

Our research is primarily clinically based and encompasses all areas of sleep medicine.

Full sleep report

We are the most highly cited centre in the world for sleep apnoea/hypopnoea syndrome and the second most highly cited centre on clinical sleep medicine.

Current research interests include:

  • treatment of sleep-disordered breathing in the elderly
  • genetics of sleep disorders
  • circadian rhythm disorders in occupational situations
  • narcolepsy
  • parasomnias
  • medico-legal aspects of sleep disorders
  • sleep-disordered breathing in Down syndrome