BELGIAN COLLEGE of NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY and BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY

NATIONAL DAY ‘WHY WE SLEEP’

Royal Academy, Rue Ducale 1, 1000 Brussels

FRIDAY 12 JUNE 2020

Morning session chaired by Martin Desseilles

 9.00      Welcome

Martin Desseilles, President

 9.20        ‘”Eat – Sleep – Work – Repeat”: Introduction to chronobiology’

Christina SCHMIDT, Sleep and Chronobiology Lab, GIGA-institute, CRC-In Vivo Imaging Unit, Liège (BE)

 9.55        ‘The chronobiology of depression’

Niki ANTYPA, Department of Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences Leiden University (NL)        

10.30      Coffee break   

11.00        ‘Thinking about sleeping: Sleep habits and cognition’

Manuel SCHABUS, Department of Psychology, CCNS, Lab for "Sleep, Cognition and Consciousness Research", Salzburg, Austria

11.35        ‘Imaging the sleeping brain’

Thanh DANG-VU, Centre de Recherche de l’Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal (CRIUGM) and Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

12.10        Lunch

Afternoon session chaired by Loes Gabriels

13.00        ‘Light and mental health’

Gilles VANDEWALLE, Sleep and Chronobiology Lab, GIGA-institute, CRC-In Vivo Imaging Unit, Liège (BE)   

13.35        ‘Sleep and emotion regulation’

Marie VANDEKERCKHOVE, Biological Psychology, VUB (BE)

14.10        ’Chronobiological aspects of sleep in the elderly’

Maarten VAN DEN BOSSCHE, Ouderenpsychiatrie en slaap-waakstoornissen, UPC KU Leuven (BE)

14.45        Closing remarks

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Registration fee:  BCNBP members: free - Non-members: 95 euro - Trainees: 45 euro

Payment by bank transfer (IBAN: BE40 2900 1349 6963) with communication ‘12.06.2020 + name’                         

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