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Sponsor Note

Idorsia Pharmaceuticals Ltd. supported the development of this volume of the Frontiers of Neurology and Neuroscience book series (Vol. 45; Series Editor: J. Bogousslavsky, Montreux).

Disclosures

The Guest Editors declare that during the development of the book, Michel A. Steiner and Martine Clozel were employed by Idorsia Pharmaceuticals Ltd., Allschwil, Switzerland, and that Professor Yanagisawa, an independent researcher (Director and Professor of the International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine [WPI-IIIS], University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan) received consultancy fees from Idorsia Pharmaceuticals Ltd.

Editorial assistance for the development of the book was provided by Jessica Beake (Beake Medicom), funded by Idorsia Pharmaceuticals Ltd.

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