Dr. Thomas E Scammell M.D.
Sleep Medicine Specialist | Sleep Medicine
375 Longwood Ave Suite 3 Boston MA, 02215About
Dr. Thomas Scammell practices Sleep Medicine in Boston, MA. Dr. Scammell studies, diagnoses, and treats sleep disturbances and disorders due to varying factors. Sleep Medicine Physicians are trained to treat many different conditions, including insomnia, narcolepsy, sleep apnea, idiopathic hypersomnia, menstrual-related hypersomnia, and circadian rhythm disturbances, among others.
Education and Training
Univ Of Ma Med Sch- Worcester Ma 1988
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN- Sleep Medicine
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Severe acute disseminated encephalomyelitis with normal MRI at presentation.
- Fos expression in orexin neurons varies with behavioral state.
- Orexin (hypocretin) neurons contain dynorphin.
- Wakefulness: an eye-opening perspective on orexin neurons.
- Effects of vagus nerve stimulation on respiration during sleep.
- The sleep switch: hypothalamic control of sleep and wakefulness.
- Polymorphisms in hypocretin/orexin pathway genes and narcolepsy.
- Hypocretin/orexin and sleep: implications for the pathophysiology and diagnosis of narcolepsy.
- The neurobiology, diagnosis, and treatment of narcolepsy.
- Orexin/Hypocretin: wired for wakefulness.
- Orexin-immunoreactive inputs to rat sympathetic preganglionic neurons.
- Wake-related activity of tuberomammillary neurons in rats.
- Modafinil: a drug in search of a mechanism.
- Narcolepsy caused by acute disseminated encephalomyelitis.
- Behavioral state instability in orexin knock-out mice.
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