Users
The PhiTools' PRANA® software is used for experimental and clinical research purposes in various research laboratories and hospitals. Here is a list of some customers that may be questionned regarding PhiTools software and services:
- Pr Eve VAN CAUTER at the University of Chicago (USA) for investigations in humans of the effects of sleep debt on neurobehavioral functions and metabolism.
- Dr Carlyle SMITH at the University of Trent (CANADA) to investigate links between sleep, memory and aging.
- Pr Pierre PHILIP and Dr Jacques TAILLARD at the University Hospital of Bordeaux (FRANCE) to study the effects of chronic sleep restriction on driving performance.
- Pr Harvey MOLDOFSKY at the Centre for Sleep and Chronobiology in Toronto (CANADA) for fundamental and clinical research on biologic rhythms, sleep-wake physiology, and their roles as determinants to health and disease.
- Dr Emilia SFORZA of the Neuropsychiatry unit in the Geneva hospital (SWITZERLAND) for studies of arousals during sleep, autonomic correlates and related pathological conditions.
- Dr Raymond CESPUGLIO at the University Claude Bernard (UCBL) in Lyon (FRANCE) to study the effect of stress and epilepsy in animals.
- Pr Alain BUGUET of the Institut de Médecine Tropicale - Le Pharo in Marseille (FRANCE) for studies in human african trypanosomiasis sleeping sickness.
- Dr Karine SPIEGEL at the Erasme hospital in Bruxelles (BELGIUM) for investigations of sleep, vigilance and endocrine functions in man.
- Dr Tom McLELLAN at the Defence R&D Canada in Toronto (CANDA) to study the effects of heat on vigilance and performance.
- Dr Helli MERICA of the Geneva hospital (SWITZERLAND) for sleep studies in normals and insomniacs.
- Dr Esra TASALI and Dr Rachel LEPROULT at the University of Chicago (USA) for investigations in humans of the effects of sleep fragmentation on neurobehavioral functions and metabolism.
- Dr Toni QUERA-SALVA with SERVIER laboratory at the Henri Poincaré hospital in Garches (FRANCE) for hypnotic phase I studies.
- Dr Joel PAQUEREAU at the La Milétrie hospital in Poitiers (FRANCE) for sleep studies in man.
- Dr Yves DAUVILLIERS at the Guy de Chauliac hospital in Montpellier (FRANCE) for sleep studies in healthy man and pathological conditions.
- Dr Julie CARRIER of the Hopital Sacré-Coeur in Montréal (CANADA) for studies of sleep in aging.
- Dr Zarah de SAINT-HILAIRE of the Geneva hospital (SWITZERLAND) to study the effect of drugs on sleep in animals.
- Dr Jérôme VIX of the Desgenettes hospital in Lyon (FRANCE) for the diagnostic of sleep disorders and for sleep investigations after anaesthesia.
- Dr Bernard BOUTEILLE at the Tropical medecine institut in Limoges (FRANCE) for the study of sleep in animal models of african trypanosomiasis.
- Dr Christophe JOUNY at the Geneva hospital (SWITZERLAND) for human REM sleep studies.
- Dr Florian CHAPOTOT at the Centre d'Etudes de Physiologie Appliquée of the CNRS in Strasbourg (FRANCE) for the study of vigilance in driving simulator.
- Dr Frédéric CANINI with Sarah MERCIER in the Army research center in Grenoble (FRANCE) for studies on stress and sleep.
- Pr Lionel BOURDON at the Naval Army research center in Toulon (FRANCE) for studies on occupationnal stress and heart rate variability.
- Dr Rachida ROKY at the Hassan II Institute of Casablanca (MOROCCO) for investigation of sleep and vigilance during Ramadan.
PhiTools provides advanced software solutions and services for biosignal processing, sleep analysis, psychophysiological research and clinical trials. PhiTools, software tools and services for psychophysiology, polysmonography and chronobiology.

