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Meet Michel Lecendreux, MD, child psychiatrist, University Hospital, Robert-Debré, Paris, France, and newest member of the Hypersomnia Foundation’s Medical Advisory Board.
For those of you who watched the Livestream or attended the Denver Regional Conference in person, you may remember Dr. Lecendreux. He gave a fascinating presentation on what hypersomnia looks like in children and adolescents and told us that hypersomnia is often unrecognized and undiagnosed. He also shared some of his research findings, which indicate that many of these children and adolescents have emotional difficulties, have behavioral or cognitive problems (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder–ADHD–symptoms), have decreased academic performance, become loners, and avoid athletic activities.
Dr. Lecendreux is involved in pediatric sleep research, and he also cares for children and adolescents in the clinic. He is the head of the Pediatric Sleep Centre at Hospital Robert-Debré in Paris. His main fields of interests are sleep, alertness, narcolepsy, and ADHD.
Dr. Lecendreux is one of the directors of the French Reference Center for Pediatric Narcolepsy, Idiopathic Hypersomnias and Kleine-Levin Syndrome in the Department of Neurophysiology and is a member of numerous international sleep societies.
Dr. Lecendreux has written many journal articles, editorials, chapters and books in the area of pediatric narcolepsy, ADHD and sleep and is an editorial board member for the Journal of Attention Disorders. Together with his colleagues, he reported on the role of vigilance impairment in children ADHD and insisted on the role of iron deficiency in the pathophysiology of ADHD. Dr. Lecendreux is also involved in numerous activities, including teaching medicine and education and research on attention disorders at the Faculty of Medicine of Paris.
So now that you know all about Dr. Lecendreux, don’t forget to write into our Ask the Doctor column and ask him questions pertaining to children or adolescents and hypersomnia.