Dr Chris Idzikowski has been involved in sleep research
and medicine for more than 20 years. He originally worked with Professor Ian Oswald in
Edinburgh on the restorative hypothesis of sleep. Subsequently, he went on to Cambridge to
study anxiety and fear, and then to the Janssen Research Foundation, Oxfordshire where he
ran, at its time, the UK's largest sleep laboratory. This work lead to his book:
Serotonin, Sleep and Mental Disorder (1991). He is a member of the US Sleep Research
Society, European Sleep Research Society, is the former chairman of the British Sleep
Society, board member of the US Sleep Medicine Foundation, member of the clinical
and educational sub-committees of the European Sleep Research Society and runs the Sleep
Assessment and Advisory Service which provides support for general practitioners and
primary care physicians both in the UK, Ireland and Europe. He set up a working group of
patient self- help groups so that these groups could exchange information. Over the years
he has researched into many drugs, hypnotics, antidepressants, and antipsychotics,
aromatherapy, and has looked at disturbed sleep in insomniacs, dementia, chronic fatigue
syndrome (M.E), cancer patients, AIDS, depression and many other areas. His professional
background of clinical pharmacology and psychology provides him with a unique insights
into sleep and its disorders.
Selected References
Idzikowski, C. Sleep and Memory. British
Journal of Psychology, 75, 439-449, 1984.
Idzikowski, C., Mills, F.J., and Glennard, R. 5-Hydroxytryptamine-2 antagonist increases human Slow
Wave Sleep. Brain Research, 378, 164-168, 1986.
Idzikowski, C., Kumar, D., Soffer, E.,
Siderfin, C., Thompson, P., and Wingate, DL., Is the migrating motor complex ultradian rhythm related to the sleep cycle in man ?. The
Physiologist, 215, 1987.
Idzikowski, C. Sleep. In Serotonin, Sleep and Mental Disorder,
Idzikowski, C., and Cowen, P. (eds) Wrightson Biomedical Publishing: Petersfield, 1991.
Idzikowski, C. Insomnia and Depression -
Sleep EEG changes. Journal of Psychomatic, Research, 38, 27-40, 1994.
Idzikowski, C. Continuous long-term electrophysiological recording:
methods, measures and meaning. In Human Psychopharmacology, Vol 5. Hindmarch, I.
& Stonier, P.D. (Eds), John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 111-135, 1995.
Idzikowski, C. Impact of
insomnia on health-related quality of life, Pharmacoeconomics, 10 (suppl 1), 15-24,
1996.
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