Lampros Perogamvros
Function: Privat-Docent
Group name: Neuropsychiatry of sleep and dreams
Group type: Affiliated
Hosting group: Sophie Schwartz
Affiliations: Faculty of Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, Department of Basic Neurosciences
Domains: Affective and Social Neurosciences, Attention and Cognition
Research activities
Our research focuses on the investigation of the neural correlates and the phenomenology of dreams and nightmares. More precisely, we are investigating the role of cortical and subcortical structures in dream generation and the overall dream experience, as well as their dysfunction in nightmare disorder. We are also interested in how sleep and dreaming participate in emotion regulation and in memory consolidation processes, with the goal of understanding the potential function of dreaming. Another research domain is the treatment of parasomnias and insomnia disorder as well as the interaction between sleep and neuropsychiatric disorders. Among other aims, the current research projects use sleep and dreaming in order to accelerate treatment for several psychiatric disorders, such as anxiety disorders.
Key publications
Fear in dreams and in wakefulness: evidence for day/night affective homeostasis
Increased heartbeat-evoked potential during REM sleep in nightmare disorder
The neural correlates of dreaming
The roles of the reward system in sleep and dreaming
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Contact
Center for Sleep Medicine
Department of Medicine
Chemin du Petit-Bel-Air 2
1225 Chêne-Bourg
Department of Basic Neurosciences
Campus Biotech
Chemin des Mines 9
1202 Genève
lampros.perogamvros@hcuge.ch