Prof. Dr. Rene Kahn
Prof. Dr. Rene Kahn
Prof. Dr. Rene Kahn is Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Head of the Division of Neuroscience at the UMC Utrecht, as well as the author of numerous publications and books, among which De tien geboden voor het brein (2011).
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Sleep is disturbed in many if not all psychiatric disorders. It is abnormal in depression, manic depressive disorder, schizophrenia and anxiety disorders. But the disturbance is not the same in each of these disorders. This in itself poses and interesting question: why is that so and what does it tell us about the role of sleep in psychiatry?
This presentation will discuss sleep disturbances in psychiatric illness and what we can discern from that regarding the etiology of sleep problems in particular and psychiatric illness in general. The role of sleep in treatment is discussed as well.