BCNBP NATIONAL DAY 2023

‘WHY WE SLEEP’

Brussel, Friday 23 june 2023 
Royal Library of Belgium, Auditorium Panorama, Kunstberg 28 , Brussels

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Welcome, Livia De Picker, President

Morning session chaired by Martin Desseilles

9.15 ‘Eat – Sleep – Work – Repeat’: Introduction to chronobiology.
Christina SCHMIDT, Sleep and Chronobiology Lab, GIGA-institute, CRC-In Vivo Imaging Unit, Liège (BE)
9.50 ‘The chronobiology of depression’
Niki ANTYPA, Department of Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences Leiden University (NL)

10.25 Coffee break

10.55 ‘Sleep and neurodegeneration’
Maarten VAN DEN BOSSCHE, Department of Geriatric Psychiatry UPC KU Leuven – Sleep Centre UZ Leuven – Neuropsychiatry, Leuven Brain Institute, KU
Leuven.
11.30 ‘Sleep and cognitive health’
Thanh DANG-VU, Centre de Recherche de l’Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal (CRIUGM) and Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

12.05 Lunch

Afternoon session chaired by Livia De Picker

13.00 ‘In search of brain mechanisms of insomnia and its consequences for mental health’
Eus Van Someren, VUMC Amsterdam (NL)
13.35 ‘Light, emotion and mood’
Gilles Vandewalle, Sleep and Chronobiology Lab, GIGA-institute, CRC-In Vivo Imaging Unit, Liège (BE)

14.10 Closing remarks

Registration fee: BCNBP members: free - Non-members: 95 euro - Trainees: 45 euro
Payment by bank transfer (IBAN: BE40 2900 1349 6963) with communication ’23.06.2023 + name’
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