The first SleepWell Research Symposium: Sleep, Brain and Mind!

Top experts from the Netherlands, the UK and the USA share their experiences of sleep, its basic mechanisms and effects on human and other organism health. 

Programme: 

15.00-15.10 Opening of the symposium, Professor Tiina Paunio  

15.10-15.50 Professor Eus van Someren, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience:

Towards understanding mechanisms of insomnia  

15.50-16.30 Professor Larry D Sanford, Eastern Virginia Medical School:  

Fear conditioning, neuroimmune responses and sleep: Role of amygdala in mediating a complex relationship  

16.30-17.10 Professor Colin Espie, University of Oxford:  

How and why to treat insomnia?  

17.10-17.20 Break  

17.20-18:00 Professor Sara Aton, University of Michigan:  

How sleep loss disrupts hippocampal memory mechanisms   

18:00-18:40 Professor Ruth Benca, University of California:  

Sleep, ageing and dementia