About the Authors

Luigi De Gennaro

luigi.degennaro@uniroma1.it

Affiliations Department of Psychology, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy, IRCCS Centro S. Giovanni di Dio, Hosp. Fatebenefratelli, Brescia, Italy

Fabiana Fratello

Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy

Cristina Marzano

Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy

Fabio Moroni

Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy

Giuseppe Curcio

Affiliations Department of Psychology, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy, Casa di Cura S. Raffaele Cassino and IRCCS S. Raffaele Pisana, Roma, Italy

Daniela Tempesta

Affiliation Laboratory of Sleep Psychophysiology, Faculty of Psychology, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy

Maria Concetta Pellicciari

Affiliation IRCCS Centro S. Giovanni di Dio, Hosp. Fatebenefratelli, Brescia, Italy

Cornelia Pirulli

Affiliation IRCCS Centro S. Giovanni di Dio, Hosp. Fatebenefratelli, Brescia, Italy

Michele Ferrara

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine and Public Health, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy

Paolo Maria Rossini

Affiliations Casa di Cura S. Raffaele Cassino and IRCCS S. Raffaele Pisana, Roma, Italy, AFaR, Department of Neuroscience, Hosp. Fatebenefratelli, Isola Tiberina, Rome, Italy, Neurology Clinic, University Campus Biomedico, Rome, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MF LD PR. Performed the experiments: FM GC FF CM MP DT CP. Analyzed the data: LD. Wrote the paper: LD.