Teaching Courses
Tuesday, 14 September 2010, 09.00-12.30 h
Sleep Medicine 1: Contemporary treatment of sleep-disordered breathing’
Chair: D. Pevernagie (Gent, BE/Heeze, NL)
This course is intended to give a concise and yet comprehensive overview of the modern therapeutic approach to sleep apnea and variant respiratory syndromes. These are among the most prevalent disorders in sleep medicine. The course covers three relevant topics: positive airway pressure (PAP), oral appliances and upper airway surgery. The aim is to give an overview on the physiological principles of treatment, clinical results, as well as some ’nuts and bolts’ on how to start and follow-up the different therapeutic interventions. The teaching level is basic to intermediate.
Positive airway pressure (PAP)
A. Blau (Berlin, DE)
Oral appliances
M. De Meyer (Gent, BE)
Upper airway surgery
Sören Berg (Lund, SE)
Sleep and Cognition
Chair: P. Peigneux (Brussels, BE)
The possible facilitating role of sleep for memory, and its underlying mechanisms, has become one of the hottest topics in sleep research. This teaching course is intended to summarize state-of-the-art approaches in this research domain, with a critical focus on methodology. Each speaker will concentrate on how and why animal and human experimental and clinical investigations have contributed to broaden our current knowledge in this domain, while proposing a critical discussion about potential flaws, limitations and bias that may lead to cautious interpretation of existing results.
Contributions of animal models to the understanding of the role of sleep in learning and memory
S. Palchykova (Zurich/CH)
Caveats and pitfalls for the use of psychological models in the study of sleep and memory
G. Ficca (Naples/IT)
Does sleep facilitates memory in an active way or passively by interference reduction?
A. Coenen (Nijmegen/NL)
Tuesday, 14 September 2010, 13.30-17.00 h
Sleep Medicine 2
Chair: J. Santamaria (Barcelona, ES)
The aim of this teaching course is to give an overview of three important sleep disorders where significant knowledge has accumulated in recent years. Clinical features, etiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis, differential diagnosis and treatment will be discussed and illustrated by the speakers with examples. An important part of the course will be to answer questions of the audience.
Narcolepsy
S. Overeem (Nijmegen/NL)
Insomnia
C. Espie (Glasgow/UK)
Restless legs
C. Trenkwalder (Kassel/DE)
Sleep and Genetics
Chair: M. von Schantz (Guildford, UK)
Sleep is a complex behaviour. During the last half a century, considerable progress has been made in terms of defining sleep in qualitative and quantitative terms, as well as defining its anatomical substrates and how they interact. Simultaneously, it has become clear that sleep is not only a property of mammals. It is not only found in other vertebrate groups, but it is also now generally recognised that sleep also exists in invertebrates such as insects. All of these developments have set the scene for a growing understand of genetic control of sleep regulation and homeostasis in the normal state and in sleep disorders. The current knowledge and technique/approaches within this field is reviewed in this training course.
Approaches towards finding sleep genes in mice
P. Franken (Lausanne/CH)
Human sleep genetics: from genotype to phenotype
M. von Schantz (Guildford, UK)
Methods in human sleep genetics: A genetic approach to restless legs syndrome
J. Winkelmann (Munich, DE)