ARNULF Isabelle

Isabelle Arnulf is a sleep neurologist, Professor of Neurology at the Sorbonne University, Paris, France, and Director of the Sleep Disorders Clinic at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris.  

She holds a medical degree from the University of Grenoble, a master's degree from the University of Lyon in the research group of Michel Jouvet (sleep in the cat), a doctorate from the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris (in the research group of Yves Agid, studying sleep in Parkinson's disease), and a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University (USA) in the research group of Emmanuel Mignot, studying Kleine-Levin syndrome and narcolepsy.  

Her research program (carried out in the DreamTeam group at the Paris Brain Institute, that she co-directs with Delphine Oudiette) focuses on neurological sleep disorders, in particular abnormal behaviors during sleep (sleepwalking, REM sleep behavior disorders), sleep in Parkinson's disease and central hypersomnias (narcolepsy, idiopathic hypersomnia, Kleine-Levin syndrome), and what these disorders tell us about the functions of sleep and dreams. She published more than 300 original articles on her research.