NCMD Research Seminar Series 6 June 2025
The Northern Centre for Mood Disorders, Research Seminar Series, Friday 6th June 2025, 12-1pm via Teams
Chronic Insomnia
Dr Hugh Selsick Consultant Psychiatrist and Sleep Specialist. Please note the speaker has been supported to present by Idorsia Pharmaceuticals Ltd.
Dr Selsick is a consultant psychiatrist treating adults with sleep disorders. He has been involved in Sleep and Sleep Medicine for nearly 30 years. He has founded and runs the Insomnia and Behavioural Sleep Medicine Clinic at UCLH, the first of its kind, and is the lead clinician there.
Dr Selsick has also founded and chaired the Sleep Special Interest Group in the Royal College of Psychiatrists and he is a past president of the Sleep Section at the Royal Society of Medicine.
He has expertise in treating all sleep disorders and has a special interest in the management of insomnia, nightmares, circadian rhythm disorders and restless legs. He has also contributed to numerous textbooks on sleep and psychiatry.
He has lectured and taught widely on sleep medicine and runs training courses on general sleep medicine, sleep and mental health, and cognitive behaviour therapy for insomnia.
The Chronic Insomnia presentation will include the following:
- Role of sleep
- Chronic insomnia: diagnosis and management
- The Role of Orexin
- Chronic Insomnia
- NICE Guidance
- Idorsia’s chronic insomnia treatment: mechanism of action, phase 3 study data, efficacy, sofaety profile, practical management
- Q&A
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Meeting ID: 388 430 428 998 Passcode: UZ3zC6s9
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