G.a. (gerard) Kerkhof
Professor
Social and Behavioural Sciences
University of Amsterdam
Netherlands
Biography
Gerard Kerkhof obtained his Msc in Psychophysiology (cum laude) at Leiden University in 1974. He received his PhD in 1981. Before he moved to the University of Amsterdam in 2000, he held positions at Leiden University, both in the Faculty of Medicine (Dept. Physiology) and in the Faculty of Social Sciences (Dept. Psychology), and from 1999 onwards, at the Sleep Disorders Center of the MCH Westeinde Hospital, The Hague. He is author of more than 180 peer-reviewed journal articles on various aspects of circadian rhythmicity (24h rhythms) and sleep. He serves or has served on a number of editorial boards of international journals, such as the Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology and the Journal of Psychophysiology. He is past-president of the Dutch Society for Sleep-Wake Research (NSWO).Currently he is director of the Psychology Research Institute of the University of Amsterdam and director of the university research priority program Brain & Cognition.
Research Interest
regulation and deregulation of human circadian rhythms and sleep.
Publications
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Lammers-van der Holst, H.M., Van Dongen, H.P.A. & Kerkhof, G.A. (2006). Are individual parameters of nightsleep predictive for parameters of day-sleep after commencing shiftwork? Chronobiology International , 23: 1217-1227.
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Varkevisser, M., Van Dongen, H.P.A., Van Amsterdam, J.G.C. & Kerkhof, G.A. (2007). Chronic insomnia and daytime functioning : An ambulatory assessment. Behavioral Sleep Medicine, 5: 279-296.
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Koch, B.C.P., Hagen, E.C.H., Nagtegaal, J.E., Boringa, J.B.S., Kerkhof, G.A. & Ter Wee, P.M. (2008), Effects of nocturnal dialysis on melatonin rhythm and sleep-wake behavior: an uncontrolled trial. American Journal of Kidney Disease , accepted for publication.
