Samuele Cortese is Assistant Chief of the Child and Adolescent Psychopathology Unit at the Robert Debré Hospital, Paris, and a doctoral candidate at Verona University. His main research areas include attention-deficit–hyperactivity disorder and restless legs syndrome. Dr Cortese is a member of the Italian Society of Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry (Psychiatry and Neuropsychology Section). He obtained his degree from Verona University in 1999 and his speciality in child neuropsychiatry in 2004.