28th Bernese Sleep-Wake-Epilepsy Days 2024

The 28th Bernese Sleep-Wake-Epilepsy Days will take place on November, 7–8, 2024 at the Inselspital Bern.

All information about the event will be published continuously on this page. 

Registration will be open around August 2024. Participation is free of charge.

Thursday, November 7, 2024

Clinical and scientific use of long-term EEG

10:30–10:35

Introduction

Kaspar Schindler

10:35–11:00

Non-invasive long-term EEG

Andrea Seiler

11:00–11:25

Minimal-invasive long-term EEG

Speaker to be confirmed

11:25–11:50

Invasive long-term EEG

Maxime Baud

Credits
1 Credit SNG, 2 Credits SGKN, SGAIM, SGPP, SGSSC (requested)

iSPHYNCS Invesitgators Meeting (by invitation only)

09:00–10:45

C. L. A. Bassetti, R. Khatami, S. von Manitius, A. Datta, S. Miano, M. Strub, J. Acker, S. Bürki, U. Kallweit, G. J. Lammers

Thursday, November 7, 2024

28th Bernese Sleep-Wake-Epilepsy Symposium

13:30–13:40

Welcome

Claudio L. A. Bassetti

 

13:40–13:45

6th Bernese Sleep Award

Award Presentation: Claudio L. A. Bassetti

 

13:45–14:30

A Lifetime of Sleep - Why am I so Tired?

Mary Carskadon

 

14:30–15:00

Clearing the Brain at Night: Sleep & Glymphatics

Rolf Froczek

 

15:00–15:30

Why randomized clinical trials may show lack of treatment effects of CPAP for sleep apnea?

Shahrokh Javaheri

 

15:30–16:00

Coffee Break

   

16:00–16:15

4th Bernese Epilepsy Award

With generous support by the Kernen-Fonds

Award Presentation: Kaspar Schindler

 

16:15–17:00

Mechanisms of endogenous epileptogenicity

Premysl Jiruska

 

17:00–17:30

Differential diagnosis of nocturnal seizures

Lino Nobili

 

17:30

Closing Remarks followed by an aperitif

   

Credits
4 Credits SNG, 2 Credits SGKN, SGAIM, SGPP, SGSSC, SGP, pädiatrie schweiz (requested)

Friday, November 8,2024

10th ZEN Symposium

08:45–08:50

Welcome

Antoine Adamantidis

08:50–09:00

Research perspectives in Neurology

Urs Fischer

09:00–10:00

Hybrid states between wake and sleep: a portal into sleepers' cognition?

Delphine Oudiette

10:00–10:30

Coffee Break

 

1st Session

 

Sleep at the Molecular Scale

   

10:30–11:15

Single cell transcriptomics & sleep homeostasis

Sha Liu

2nd Session

 

Sleep & Neuro-computational approaches

   

11:15–12:00

Sleep restores an optimal computational regime in cortical networks

Keith Hengen

12:00–12:45

Cortical neural assembly dynamics across the sleep-wake cycle

Richard Boyce

12:45–13:30

Lunch

 

3rd Session

Sleep & Experimental Neurology

   

13:30–14:15

Hippocampus oscillations in AD, cognition or sleep

Isabelle Lambert

14:15–15:00

The role of interictal discharges in ictogenesis - A dynamical perspective

Premysl Jyruska

15:00–15:30

Coffee Break

 

4th Session

 

BRIDGE sponsored Session – SLEEP and DRUG DISCOVERY

   

15:30–16:15

Quviviq: Translating Orexin Receptor Antagonism from Animals to Humans for Insomnia Treatment

Michel Steiner

16:15–17:00

Translational predictive tools for improved drug screening for insomnia

Tiago Sa Campelo

17:00

Closing Remarks

 

Credits
8 Credits SNG, SGKN, SGSSC, SGPP, pädiatrie schweiz (requested)