CarlosHSchenckMD

Sleep Medicine

Professor, Psychiatry, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis

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Office
Dept. of Psychiatry and Minnesota Regional Sleep Disorders Center
701 Park Ave. (R7)
Minneapolis, MN 55415
Phone+1 612-873-6288

I am Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Minnesota Medical School, and Senior Staff Psychiatrist at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, where I am also a staff physician at the Minnesota Regional Sleep Disorders Center. My primary research area involves the Parasomnias (sleep behavioral and emotional disorders), including REM sleep behavior disorder, sleep related eating disorder, sexsomnia, sleepwalking, sleep terrors, etc. I am also interested in the forensic aspects of the parasomnias, and I am a founding member of Sleep Forensics Associates.

University of MinnesotaResidency, Psychiatry, 1977 - 1980
Women and Children's Hospital of BuffaloInternship, Transitional Year, 1976 - 1977
Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at BuffaloClass of 1976

Associate Editor SLEEP (Official journal of the Sleep Research Society), 2010-2020
Sleep Science Award American Academy of Neurology, 2017
Visiting Professor University of Cagliari (UNICA), Department of Public Health, Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy, 2015
Visiting Professor Faculté de Medecine, Université D’Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France, 2014
Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award Sleep Research Society, 2010
Lifetime Honorary Member Mexican Academy of Neurology (La Academia Mexicana de Neurologia, A.C.), 2010
William C. Dement, M.D. Academic Achievement Award in Sleep Medicine American Academy of Sleep Medicine, 2007
Visting Professor Oregon Health and Science University, 2005
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PubMed

213 citations
Proposed diagnostic criteria for night eating syndrome.
Kelly C. Allison, Jennifer D. Lundgren, John P. O'Reardon, Allan Geliebter, Marci E. Gluck
The International Journal of Eating Disorders. 2009-04-17
192 citations
Motor dyscontrol in narcolepsy : rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep without atonia and REM sleep behavior disorder
Carlos H. Schenck, Mark W. Mahowald
Annals of Neurology. 1992-07-01
53 citations
Effects of mild exercise on cytokines and cerebral blood flow in chronic fatigue syndrome patients.
Phillip K. Peterson, S A Sirr, F C Grammith, Carlos H. Schenck, A M Pheley
Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology. 1994-03-01

Journal Articles

Complex Sexual Behaviors During Sleep as a Manifestation of Epilepsy: A Case Series
Carlos Schenck, MD, Sleep

A Preview of 'REM Sleep Behavior Disorder (RBD): Understanding the Clinician and Patient Perspectives' at SLEEP 2023May 2023

Sexsomnia Really Exists — Here's What to Know About 'Sleep Sex'February 7th, 2023
Virtual SLEEP 2021 Meeting Brings International Research to YouMay 21st, 2021
A High-Density Electroencephalography Study Reveals Abnormal Sleep Homeostasis in Patients with Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Behavior DisorderFebruary 26th, 2021
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Executive Board member, North American Prodromal Synucleinopathy (NAPS) Consortium (NIH funded) 2019 - Present
Inaugural Member, Sleep Forensics Associates 2005 - Present
Inaugural President, International REM Sleep Behavior Disorder Study Group (IRBD-SG) 2012 - 2014