Ask the experts: Managing sleep disorders in neurodegenerative diseases. (December 2012) - Iranzo, Alex
Alex Iranzo graduated in medicine (1991) and neurology (1997) and completed his PhD thesis (2002) entitled 'Sleep disorders in the parkinsonian syndrome' at the Universidad de Barcelona, Spain. Presently, he is a neurologist consultant at the neurology service and at the multidisciplinary sleep unit of the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain). He is an investigator at Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi iSunyer and Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (Barcelona, Spain). He is a member of numerous national and international neurology, sleep, rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder and restless legs societies, and is currently spokesperson of the Sleep Disorders Group of the Spanish Society of Neurology, secretary of the International REM Sleep Behavior Disorder Group, treasurer of the Sleep Spanish Society and assistant treasurer of the World Association of Sleep Medicine. Iranzo has widely published as first and corresponding author in peer-reviewed journals such as The Lancet, The Lancet Neurology, Annals of Neurology, Neurology, Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, Movement Disorders, Sleep, and Sleep Medicine . Iranzo's research has focused on sleep in neurological diseases, rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder, narcolepsy and restless legs syndrome.