DIMITRIS DIKEOS, MD
PROFESSOR OF PSYCHIATRY
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH (As of March 2025)
Dimitris Dikeos is Professor of Psychiatry at the 1st Department of Psychiatry of Athens University Medical School, Athens, Greece and Director of the Sleep Research Unit of Athens University at Eginition Hospital.
His research activities have focused on psychiatric genetics, sleep research, psychopharmacology and psychopathology. He has participated in various Multicentre Research Programmes in Europe and the U.S.A. such as: European Collaborative Studies of Affective Disorders, Johns Hopkins Genetic Epidemiology Schizophrenia Program, Meta-analysis of Sleep Laboratory Studies on Tolerance and Rebound Insomnia with Rapidly Eliminated Hypnotics, Maudsley Family Study, European Collaborative study by the Group for the Study of Resistant Depression (TRD), International Multicentre Study “FACTOR”, International Study on the Genetics of Anorexia Nervosa, The Psychiatric Genetics Consortium (PGC); Neurobiology and Treatment of Adolescent Female Conduct Disorder: the Central Role of Emotion Processing (FemNAT-CD), ΗΟRΙΖΟΝ research programme “Implementing a patient-centred and evidence-based intervention to reduce BEnzodiazepine and sedative hypnotic use to improve patient SAFEty and quality of care (ΒΕ-Safe), etc.
He has been President of the Hellenic Sleep Research Society (HSRS); Past President of the International Neuropsychiatric Association (INA); Treasurer of the World Federation of Societies for Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP).
Dr. Dikeos is co-editor of three English-language books, two of which have been published by the World Psychiatric Association, and he is author or co-author of more than 100 full publications, out of which more than 60 are articles in SCI Journals with more than 2500 citations (h-index=55), among which: American Journal of Medical Genetics, British Journal of Psychiatry, Current Opinion in Psychiatry, International Clinical Psychopharmacology, Journal of Psychosomatic Research, Molecular Psychiatry, Nature Genetics, Psychiatric Genetics, and Science.
His research activities have focused on psychiatric genetics, sleep research, psychopharmacology and psychopathology. He has participated in various Multicentre Research Programmes in Europe and the U.S.A. such as: European Collaborative Studies of Affective Disorders, Johns Hopkins Genetic Epidemiology Schizophrenia Program, Meta-analysis of Sleep Laboratory Studies on Tolerance and Rebound Insomnia with Rapidly Eliminated Hypnotics, Maudsley Family Study, European Collaborative study by the Group for the Study of Resistant Depression (TRD), International Multicentre Study “FACTOR”, International Study on the Genetics of Anorexia Nervosa, The Psychiatric Genetics Consortium (PGC); Neurobiology and Treatment of Adolescent Female Conduct Disorder: the Central Role of Emotion Processing (FemNAT-CD), ΗΟRΙΖΟΝ research programme “Implementing a patient-centred and evidence-based intervention to reduce BEnzodiazepine and sedative hypnotic use to improve patient SAFEty and quality of care (ΒΕ-Safe), etc.
He has been President of the Hellenic Sleep Research Society (HSRS); Past President of the International Neuropsychiatric Association (INA); Treasurer of the World Federation of Societies for Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP).
Dr. Dikeos is co-editor of three English-language books, two of which have been published by the World Psychiatric Association, and he is author or co-author of more than 100 full publications, out of which more than 60 are articles in SCI Journals with more than 2500 citations (h-index=55), among which: American Journal of Medical Genetics, British Journal of Psychiatry, Current Opinion in Psychiatry, International Clinical Psychopharmacology, Journal of Psychosomatic Research, Molecular Psychiatry, Nature Genetics, Psychiatric Genetics, and Science.