For patients
As a patient, you cannot register directly for a consultation. Please get a referral from your primary care physician or specialist. For questions please use our contact form.
Sleep disorders consultation at the Clinic for Neurology
This consultation hour deals with the following issues – if necessary also on an interdisciplinary basis:
- Clarification of all types of sleep-wake disorders (hypersomnias, insomnias, parasomnias, sleep-associated movement or breathing disorders, isolated symptoms)
- Treatment of sleep-wake disorders
- Assessment of fitness to drive
Sleep laboratory examinations
Video-documented polysomnography is the most comprehensive examination of sleep available. Depending on the problem, polysomnography is supplemented with actigraphy (recording of the rest-activity rhythm over weeks), the multiple sleep latency test (measurement of daytime sleepiness), the multiple wakefulness test (assessment of sleep pressure), vigilance tests or blood chemistry, saliva (melatonin) or genetic tests.
Interdisciplinary sleep consultation
Every Friday at 12.15 p.m., representatives of the pneumology sleep laboratory and the Department of Psychiatry meet in the sleep laboratory of the Department of Neurology to discuss interdisciplinary cases. The relevant patients are selected from the consultation hours or registered directly from outside for such an interdisciplinary meeting. Interdisciplinary diagnostic steps are organized and coordinated therapy recommendations are made and documented.
Further information and links
For referrering physicians
University Hospital Zurich
Department of Neurology
Sleep Medicine Department
Frauenklinikstrasse 26
8091 Zurich
Tel.
+41 44 255 55 56
Mail
schlafmedizin@usz.ch
