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Sleep bulletin n. 1 | March 2021
"Sleep and wakefulness, both of them, when immoderate constitute disease"
(Hippocrates)
Message from the President
Prof. Dr. Claudio Bassetti
Dear Readers,
we founded the European Sleep Foundation (ESF) in July 2017, with the conviction that there needed to be a concrete, high-value response at an international level to the growing needs in our society with respect to sleep and consciousness disorders. We have therefore launched the Master of Advanced Studies in Sleep, Consciousness and Related Disorders, affiliated with the University of Bern and the Università della Svizzera italiana. We have also untaken to extend our range of activities, including specialized scientific events called Think Tanks, exploring specific topics in-depth, as well as continuing education opportunities with the international Sleep Medicine Summer School and Sleep Science Winter School. In the more immediate future, we are planning a number of other major national and international initiatives.
In order to raise the public’s awareness of ESF and its activities and projects - as well as disseminate news in the field of research, innovation and patient care - we are launching our monthly newsletter. Through social communication channels, this newsletter will bring you information on the ESF and present topics of interest in the field of sleep and consciousness disorders.
I would especially like to thank our young and dynamic editorial board for their efforts in ensuring the regular publication of the newsletter, and, above all, wish you all a pleasant read.
Education
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World Sleep Day
19th March 2021
The European Sleep Foundation is pleased to promote the 2021 World Sleep Day on March 19th. ‘Regular Sleep, Healthy Future’ is the motto that accompanies the day, which traditionally takes place on the Friday before the March equinox and focuses on healthy sleep. Reason enough to take a closer look here. The COVID pandemic has almost completely changed medical services. This is also true for sleep medicine. However, the pandemic also shows that sleep disorders are of crucial importance. The limitation of sleep medical services had a huge impact on patients suffering from sleepiness, fatigue and limitations of daytime performance. Long-COVID-patients often suffer from unrefreshed sleep or sleeplessness. The pandemic also triggered new ideas in the diagnosis, treatment and follow up of sleep disorders.
Various short statements on topics like ‘Sleep and Brain Health’, ‘Sleep and Movement’, ‘Sleep and Breathing’, ‘Daytime sleepiness- time to wake up!’ and ‘Insomnia: Long-term consequences’ will give you an insight on the broad field of sleep medicine. In addition, a patient representative and a nurse will talk about their everyday sleep issues.
Stay awake and have a look at their statements.
Science
Sleep and Immunity
Prof. Mikhail G. Poluektov | MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Sleep Medicine, Department of Neurological Diseases and Neurosurgery, Sechenov University, Moscow, Russia
In the era of the COVID-19 pandemic, the absence of proven remedies to prevent or effectively treat this disease raised the need for natural factors providing optimal functioning of the immune system. In experimental animals that died due to complete sleep deprivation, septicemia was considered a feature of immune defense depletion...
Insomnia disorder: clinical and research challenges for the 21st century
Prof. Luigi Ferini-Strambi | Chair, Dept. of Neurology OSR-Turro; Director, Sleep Disorder Center; Vita-Salute San Raffaele University Milan, Italy
Insomnia is a common disorder frequently associated with important consequences for physical health and well-being. ). Although it shows high prevalence, insomnia is seldom adequately assessed. This probably reflects the very little medical education on sleep and its disorders. Moreover, there are several significant gaps in the epidemiological/clinical/research studies carried out to date.
This paper summarizes the results of a symposium organized by the European Sleep Foundation. Twenty-three international experts participated to the conference: they were from the domains of sleep research, sleep medicine, neurology, psychiatry…
Events
World Sleep Forum
5th Think Tank on neurodegenaration related to sleep
Virtual Meeting | 27th - 29th May 2021
The general topic of the meeting concern different aspects of neurodegeneration and sleep disorders, from the basic mechanism on neurodegeneration and related to sleep to the risk of mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer disease, from sleep apnea to cognition and pharmacological risk of dementia.
For the first time, this year, the World Sleep Forum will include 2 “Public Key-note Lectures” session open to all interested participants.
2nd Sleep Medicine Summer School
Grenoble | 5th - 9th July 2021
This year the Sleep Medicine Summer School will offer an intense scientific program on the topics of chronobiology and circadian disorders, hypersomnia and in particular hypersomnolence in neurological disorders, insomnia and mental health, sleep and psychiatry, sleep and neurologic disorders with a specific focus on epilepsy, movement disorders, parasomnias and disorders of arousals, and sleep related breathing disorders with a specific focus on personalized medicine.
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