About the Authors

Fabio Pizza

Contributed equally to this work with: Fabio Pizza, Isabelle Jaussent

Affiliations Sleep Disorders Center, Department of Neurology, Gui-de-Chauliac Hospital, CHU Montpellier, Montpellier, France, Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences (DIBINEM), University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, IRCCS Istituto delle Scienze Neurologiche, ASL di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Isabelle Jaussent

Contributed equally to this work with: Fabio Pizza, Isabelle Jaussent

Affiliation Inserm U1061, Montpellier, France, Université Montpellier 1, Montpellier, France

Regis Lopez

Affiliations Sleep Disorders Center, Department of Neurology, Gui-de-Chauliac Hospital, CHU Montpellier, Montpellier, France, Inserm U1061, Montpellier, France, Université Montpellier 1, Montpellier, France, National Reference Centre for Orphan Diseases, Narcolepsy, Idiopathic hypersomnia and Kleine-Levin Syndrome (CNR narcolepsie-hypersomnie), Paris, France

Carole Pesenti

Affiliations Sleep Disorders Center, Department of Neurology, Gui-de-Chauliac Hospital, CHU Montpellier, Montpellier, France, Inserm U1061, Montpellier, France, Université Montpellier 1, Montpellier, France, National Reference Centre for Orphan Diseases, Narcolepsy, Idiopathic hypersomnia and Kleine-Levin Syndrome (CNR narcolepsie-hypersomnie), Paris, France

Giuseppe Plazzi

Affiliations Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences (DIBINEM), University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, IRCCS Istituto delle Scienze Neurologiche, ASL di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Xavier Drouot

Affiliation CHU de Poitiers, Clinical Neurophysiology Department, 8600 Poitiers, France

Smaranda Leu-Semenescu

Affiliations National Reference Centre for Orphan Diseases, Narcolepsy, Idiopathic hypersomnia and Kleine-Levin Syndrome (CNR narcolepsie-hypersomnie), Paris, France, Sleep Disorders Unit, Pitié-Salpêtrière University Hospital, AP-HP, Brain Research Institute (CRICM-UPMC-Paris6, Inserm UMR_S 975, CNRS UMR 7225), Sorbonne Universities, UPMC Univ Paris 06, Paris, F-75005, France

Severine Beziat

Affiliation Inserm U1061, Montpellier, France, Université Montpellier 1, Montpellier, France

Isabelle Arnulf

Affiliations National Reference Centre for Orphan Diseases, Narcolepsy, Idiopathic hypersomnia and Kleine-Levin Syndrome (CNR narcolepsie-hypersomnie), Paris, France, Sleep Disorders Unit, Pitié-Salpêtrière University Hospital, AP-HP, Brain Research Institute (CRICM-UPMC-Paris6, Inserm UMR_S 975, CNRS UMR 7225), Sorbonne Universities, UPMC Univ Paris 06, Paris, F-75005, France

Yves Dauvilliers

ydauvilliers@yahoo.fr

Affiliations Sleep Disorders Center, Department of Neurology, Gui-de-Chauliac Hospital, CHU Montpellier, Montpellier, France, Inserm U1061, Montpellier, France, Université Montpellier 1, Montpellier, France, National Reference Centre for Orphan Diseases, Narcolepsy, Idiopathic hypersomnia and Kleine-Levin Syndrome (CNR narcolepsie-hypersomnie), Paris, France

Competing Interests

Prof. Dauvilliers has received speaker’s honoraria and travelling expenses for conferences from UCB Pharma, Jazz, and Bioprojet. Prof. Dauvilliers has participated on advisory boards for UCB pharma, Jazz, and Bioprojet. G. Plazzi, X. Drouot, and I. Arnulf have received speaker’s honoraria and travelling expenses for conferences from UCB Pharma. Prof. Plazzi has participated on advisory boards for UCB pharma, and Jazz. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The other authors report no disclosures.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FP IJ YD. Performed the experiments: RL CP XD SL IA YD. Analyzed the data: FP IJ SB GP YD. Wrote the paper: FP IJ SB GP YD RL CP XD SL IA.