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Biography

Professor Luigi Ferini-Strambi is the Head of the Sleep Medicine Center at IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele in Milan, as well as the Ordinary Professor in Neurology at the Faculty of Psychology at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan.

His educational path began with a Degree in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Milan, followed by a specialization in neurology at the same university. In 1984, he started researches in the United States of America as a postdoctoral fellow at the Sleep Disorders Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas.

From 1988 to 1998, he served as the Medical Director and Head of the Sleep Medicine Center. In the future, he repeatedly cooperated with the Center for Sleep Disorders at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. From 2006 to February 2015, he was the Adjunct Professor in General Psychology at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan.

He is the author of 334 scientific articles published in national and international indexed journals, as well as numerous chapters in books. He is actively engaged in research, which is confirmed by the high value of the Hirsch index: 64 (Scopus) and 77 (Google Scholar). In addition, he is a Field Editor for the Sleep Medicine journal and Associate Editor for the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, as well as the member of the Editorial Board of the Sleep Disorders, Behavioral Neurology and the Journal of Neurology, internationally influential scientific journals.

He is the past Chairman of the World Association of Sleep Medicine and Italian Sleep Medicine Association. The Professor Ferini-Strambi is currently the member of several scientific societies, including the European Sleep Research Society, European Academy of Neurology and American Academy of Sleep Disorders.

Education

University of Milan

Degree in Medicine and Surgery – 1980

University of Milan

Specialization in Neurology – 1984

Publications

He is the author of 334 scientific articles published in national and international indexed journals, as well as numerous chapters in books. He is actively engaged in research, which is confirmed by the high value of the Hirsch index: 64 (Scopus) and 77 (Google Scholar). In addition, he is a Field Editor for the Sleep Medicine journal and Associate Editor for the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, as well as the member of the Editorial Board of the Sleep Disorders, Behavioral Neurology and the Journal of Neurology, internationally influential scientific journals.

Latest publications

Subtyping insomnia disorder.

Lancet Psychiatry-2019-6(4):284

Ferini-Strambi L., Fossati A., Sforza M., Galbiati A.

Migrating focal seizures in Autosomal Dominant Sleep-related Hypermotor Epilepsy with KCNT1 mutation.

Seizure-2019-67:57-60

Cataldi M., Nobili L., Zara F., Combi R., Prato G., Giacomini T., Capra V., De Marco P., Ferini-Strambi L., Mancardi MM.

Sleep-related disorders and their relationship with MRI findings in multiple sclerosis.

Sleep Med-2019-56:90-97

Foschi M., Rizzo G., Liguori R., Avoni P., Mancinelli L., Lugaresi A., Ferini-Strambi L.

CHRNA2 and Nocturnal Frontal Lobe Epilepsy: Identification and Characterization of a Novel Loss of Function Mutation.

Front Mol Neurosci-2019-12;12:17

Villa C., Colombo G., Meneghini S., Gotti C., Moretti M., Ferini-Strambi L., Chisci E., Giovannoni R., Becchetti A., Combi R.

Risk and predictors of dementia and parkinsonism in idiopathic REM sleep behaviour disorder: a multicentre study.

Brain-2019-1;142(3):744-759

Postuma RB, Iranzo A., Hu M., Högl B., Boeve BF, Manni R., Oertel WH, Arnulf I., Ferini-Strambi L., Puligheddu M., Antelmi E., Cochen De Cock V., Arnaldi D., Mollenhauer B., Videnovic A., Sonka K., Jung KY, Kunz D., Dauvilliers Y., Provini F., Lewis SJ, Buskova J., Pavlova M, Heidbreder A., Montplaisir JY, Santamaria J., Barber TR, Stefani A., St Louis EK, Terzaghi M., Janzen A., Leu-Semenescu S.,

The risk of neurodegeneration in REM sleep behavior disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal studies-Sleep.

Med Rev-2019-43:37-46

Galbiati A., Verga L., Giora E., Zucconi M., Ferini-Strambi L.

Sleep apnea: Altered brain connectivity underlying a working-memory challenge.

Neuroimage Clin-2018-3;19:56-65

Canessa N., Castronovo V., Cappa SF, Marelli S., Iadanza A., Falini A., Ferini-Strambi L.

Challenges and perspectives in obstructive sleep apnoea: Report by an ad hoc working group of the Sleep Disordered Breathing Group of the European Respiratory Society and the European Sleep Research Society.

Eur Respir J-2018-16;52(3)

Randerath W., Bassetti CL, Bonsignore MR, Farre R., Ferini-Strambi L., Grote L., Hedner J., Kohler M., Martinez-Garcia MA, Mihaicuta S, Montserrat J, Pepin JL, Pevernagie D, Pizza F., Polo O., Riha R., Ryan S., Verbraecken J., McNicholas WT

Full sequencing and haplotype analysis of MAPT in Parkinson's disease and rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder

Mov Disord-2018-33(6):1016-1020

Li J., Ruskey JA, Arnulf I., Dauvilliers Y., Hu MTM, Högl B., Leblond CS, Zhou S., Ambalavanan A., Ross JP, Bourassa CV, Spiegelman D., Laurent SB, Stefani A., Charley Monaca C., Cochen De Cock V., Boivin M., Ferini-Strambi L., Plazzi G., Antelmi E., Young P., Heidbreder A., Labbe C., Ferman TJ, Dion PA, Fan D., Desautels A., Gagnon JF, Dupré N., Fon EA, Montplaisir JY, Boeve BF, Postuma RB, Roule

Long-term clinical effect of group cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia: a case series study.

Sleep Med-2018-47:54-59

Castronovo V., Galbiati A., Sforza M., Poletti M., Giarolli L., Kuo T., Zucconi M., Manconi M., Hensley M., Morin C., Ferini-Strambi L.