(Pre-)Registration

Registration is open for all.
Participation will cost € 30,00. This is including lunch and coffee/tea during the day.

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Description:

The Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition (LIBC) will organize, on 18 March 2010, the symposium “Sleep(less) in Leiden” to address recent developments in sleep research.  Since ancient times it is known that sleep is of paramount importance for normal human physical, cognitive and emotional functioning, but only recently science has become able to study normal sleep and sleep abnormalities in much more detail. 
Has this progress led to a better understanding of our biological clock and modern disturbances like the ‘jet lag’ or the old fashioned ‘lying awake’ ?  Is there a relation between sleep and memory?  Learning during sleep, a dream? What can science tell us about dreaming?  Is it essential to our functioning or can we do without?

Date:

18 March 2010 

Venue  

Leiden University Medical Center, Building 3, Burumaroom
Hippocratespad 21
2333 ZD, Leiden
Route description 

Program:

08.30 am-09.45 am
REGISTRATION

09.45 am-09.50 am
Opening

10.00 am-11.00 am
Joke Meijer, Leiden University Medical Center, Department of Neurophysiology
"The neuronal network organization of the biological clock"

11.00 am -11.15 am
Coffee break

11.15 am - 12.15 am
Tracey Kahan, Santa Clara University, Department of Psychology
"Frontiers of consciousness: Scientific explorations of the mind in sleep"

12.15 pm – 14.00 pm
Lunch & Poster

14.00 pm - 15.00 pm
Eus van Someren, Leiden University Medical Center, Department of Neurology and Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam
"Sleep, cognition and brain function in old age, dementia and insomnia"

15.00 pm – 16.00 pm
Jan Born, University of Lübeck, Department of Neuroendocrinology
"Learning during sleep - not a dream"

16.00 pm -16.15 pm
Tea break

16.15 pm - 17.00 pm
Bernhard Hommel, Leiden University
“Summary and thoughts from a sceptic"

For more information or questions regarding the symposium you can contact:
email Dit e-mailadres is beschermd tegen spambots. U heeft Javascript nodig om het te kunnen zien. , telephone (0)71-526 4404

 
More information regarding the speakers:
http://www.lumc.nl/con/1050/85468/812090144402537/
http://www.intermediair.nl/artikel/de-loopbaan-van/65298/exmuzikant-eus-van-someren-onderzoekt-slapeloosheid.html
http://www.kennislink.nl/publicaties/licht-in-de-duisternis
http://www.kfg.uni-luebeck.de/html/gb/born.htm
http://www.scu.edu/cas/psychology/faculty/kahan.cfm
http://home.planet.nl/~homme247/
 

Call for posters 

Important dates:
- Proposal submission deadline: January 10, 2009
- Author notification: January 20, 2009
- Abstracts due: February 20, 2009

Submissions:
Researchers interested in presenting a poster should prepare an overview of their proposed poster in the form of a WORD document no more than 200 words in length. Please send your poster proposal, consisting of the poster's title, and the names, email addresses and affiliations of its authors, to: Dit e-mailadres is beschermd tegen spambots. U heeft Javascript nodig om het te kunnen zien. . Within one week of notification of acceptance, authors should send an abstract for inclusion in the poster proceedings.

Abstracts can be sent by post or by mail. Post address:
LIBC
c/o LUMC, Mrs Mattanja Latuhihin, C2-S
P.O.Box 9600
NL-2300 RC  Leiden