Structural and Functional Brain Alterations in IH - Dr. Thanh Dang-Vu at HF's 2018 Conference
Channel: Hypersomnia Foundation
Date: 16/04/2020

Do people with IH have different brains than people without IH? According to a Canadian research study involving one of our Medical Advisory Board members, the answer is “yes.”

The HF is very honored to have Dr. Thanh Dang-Vu’s video explaining the results of his groundbreaking research into brain imaging studies of people with IH. The research by Dr. Dang-Vu and his colleagues found that participants with IH showed regional cerebral blood flow differences compared to participants without IH, suggesting that some of the symptoms experienced by people with IH might be the result of functional alterations of brain regions implicated in the modulation of vigilance states.

Dr. Dang-Vu, Associate Professor at Concordia University in Montreal, is currently the University Research Chair in Sleep, Neuroimaging and Cognitive Health. He is also an attending neurologist and the Associate Director for Clinical Research at the Institut Universitaire de Geriatrie de Montreal, a Clinical Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Montreal, and an Adjunct Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill University. Dr. Dang-Vu received his MD and PhD from the Universite de Liege in Belgium, and completed post-doctoral fellowships in the Department of Neurology at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, as well as at the Center for Advanced Research in Sleep Medicine at the Universite de Montreal. His research is focused, in part, on the pathophysiology of sleep disorders using multimodal neuroimaging and EEG.

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