At the Request of the Corresponding (First) Author, the Editors of SLEEP are Retracting the Following Paper and Erratum:

Dr. Guilleminault notified the Editor of SLEEP on October 5, 2009, requesting a retraction of both the publication above and the erratum to the publication due to the paper remaining incomplete and inaccurate in regard to its description of methodology. The article states that the patients in the study were enrolled in an Institutional Review Board-approved study protocol. However, the Stanford IRB neither reviewed nor approved the protocol. Dr. Guilleminault indicated that all the patients were covered by an Italian protocol that had approval from an Italian institution. The article and erratum also imply that the patients were referred to the Stanford Sleep Disorders Clinic, when in fact, patients were not treated at Stanford, but they were treated in Italy and France. The first author indicated that the co-authors agree with the retraction. Officials at Stanford University confirmed there was no formal charge or investigation of scientific misconduct. Having been retracted by the authors based on inaccurate and incomplete description of the methodology, the paper and erratum should not be cited.