Why do we sleep?
LECTURER
Prof. Sara Montagnese
University of Padova
DATE: 31st July 2020 (GMT +8)
TIME: 7:00-8:00 pm (Time in China)
LOCATION: On-line
- Why we sleep and what happens if we don’t;
- Circadian versus homeostatic regulation of human sleep;
- Health consequences of circadian disruption;
- Circadian consequences of chronic disease, by way of a pertinent clinical example (i.e. circadian rhythm disturbances and their management in advanced liver disease).
Media
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Homeostasis to Memory Consolidation and Integration
Giulio Tononi and Chiara Cirelli
Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53719, USA