Laura Palagini (MD, PhD) is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Psychiatric Clinic and Director of the Sleep Outpatient Clinic at the Department of Neuroscience and Rehabilitation, University of Ferrara, Italy. Dr Palagini’s research interests include the mechanism of sleep, insomnia and other sleep disorders, dream and sleep, sleep and psychiatric disorders, sleep disorders in somatic and medical disease, and sleep disorders in rheumatic disease. Dr Palagini’s is an expert in pharmacological therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy in sleep disorders. Dr Palagini is the author of over 100 scientific publications on sleep, sleep medicine and sleep disorders. Dr Palagini is a member of the European Insomnia Network (EIN) of the European Sleep Research Society, and a member of the council of the Italian Association of Sleep Medicine (AIMS). Dr Palagini is also a member of other international task forces on sleep and mental health.