Michel Lecendreux is a psychiatrist, child psychiatrist and Director of the Sleep Laboratory (Centre Pédiatrique des Patholgies du Sommeil) at the Robert Debré Hospital, Paris. His research focus is sleep and attention–deficit hyperactivity disorder and sleep medicine. Dr Lecendreux is a member of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) Sleep Psychiatry Section, the French Sleep Research Society and the European Sleep Research Society (ESRS). He is the author or co-author of 18 papers and three books.