About the authors

Valérie Cochen De Cock

Valérie Cochen De Cock is Attending Neurologist at the National Center for Multiple System Atrophy, Sleep Department and Department of Neurology, Purpan Hospital, Toulouse, France. She completed a PhD on rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorders, under the direction of Isabelle Arnulf and Marie Vidailhet, at the Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris, France.

Marie Vidailhet

Marie Vidailhet is Professor of Neurology at the Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris, France, and Head of the Movement Disorders Clinic at Pitié-Salpêtrière University Hospital, Paris and of U106 (Pathophysiology of Basal Ganglia) at the Brain Research Institute of Paris.

Isabelle Arnulf

Isabelle Arnulf is a Neurologist and a Sleep Specialist. She leads the Sleep Center at Pitié-Salpêtrière University Hospital, Pris, France, and has conducted a research program on sleep in parkinsonism for 8 years. She completed a PhD under the direction of Yves Agid at Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris, and worked as a postdoctoral researcher with Emmanuel Mignot at Stanford University, CA, USA.