sleep and emotion

December 10^th & 12^th 2023 - rome swiss institute

A multidisciplinary investigation of human health and well-being

Final Conference Program

19:30	Social dinner at Ristorante al Cupolone - Via di porta Cavalleggeri, 145, Rome

09:00 - 09:30	Registration

Session 1: Sleep and Emotion

09:30	Keynote speaker #1 Thomas Andrillon: Origins of sleep intrusions in wakefulness and their cognitive consequences.
10:00	Célia Lacaux: Wake up, sleeping muse! Investigation of sleep onset as a cognitive and neural state promoting creativity.
10:15	Giulia Avvenuti: Local sleep-like activity and emotion regulation failures.
10:30	Kevin Mammeri: Gender-specific Trends in Sleep Patterns and Memory Function in School-Aged Children: Insights from a Real-Life Setting with EEG Analysis
10:45 - 11:00	Coffee break
11:00	Francesco Pietrogiacomi: Experience-dependent modulation of sleep-related mental activity.
11:15	Demetrio Grollero: Brain reactivity to nonverbal emotional vocalizations during NREM sleep.
11:30	Alison Montagrin: Rewriting the Past: Reconsolidation of emotional episodic memories.
11:45	Kinga Igloi: Exploring exercise effects on memory and future research on elite athletes' sleep patterns and cognitive functions.
12:00 - 14:00	Lunch break at Il piccolo Mondo - Via Aurora, 39, Rome

Session 2: Dream and Emotion

14:00	Keynote speaker #2 Lampros Perogamvros: The Theater of Dreams.
14:30	Valentina Elce: The cartography of dreams: application of computational linguistics to the study of sleep conscious experiences.
14:45	Bianca Pedreschi: REMEDY: Memory REactivation during sleep as a tool to Modulate oneiric Experiences and investigate the role of Dreams in memorY processing and emotional regulation. Stage of work: odors selection pilot.
15:00 - 15:30	Coffee break
15:30 - 15:50	Short talks: Laure Colin: Architecturally modified sleep and emotional episodic memory: an fMRI study. Alice Clerget: Enhancing imagery rehearsal therapy for idiopathic nightmares with targeted memory reactivation. Audrey Theux: Augmentation of Imagery Rehearsal Therapy with Targeted Memory Reactivation for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Saskia Czura: Imagery Rescripting and Targeted Memory Reactivation in Insomnia Disorder.
15:50	Giorgia Bontempi: Dream recall and content in RBD patients.
16:05	Davide Marzoli: Changes in brain activity upon stimulus-induced awakening predicts subsequent dream recall.
16:20	Q&D Moderator: Sophie Schwartz

17:30 - 19:00	*Art-Science presentation by Alexander Serechenko and Екатерина Пряничникова & Apero.*

Session 3: Methods in Sleep research

09:30	Keynote speaker #3 Delphine Oudiette: Asleep and aware? Transient windows of behavioral responsiveness to the external world during sleep.
10:00	Adriana Michalak: The spectrum of conscious experiences during NREM sleep: there is more than what meets the eye.
10:15	Ruggero Basanisi: Source reconstruction on a sleeping brain.
10:30	Damiana Bergamo: Cortical and subcortical hemodynamic changes associated with slow wave occurrence.
10:45 - 11:00	Coffee break
11:00	Keynote speaker #4 Marzia De Lucia: Cardio-audio and sensory regularity encoding in conscious and unconscious states.
11:30	Andria Pelentritou: Cardio-audio regularity processing in human wakefulness and sleep.
11:45	Leila Salvesen: Lucid dream induction using wearable EEG and dream engineering toolbox: a multi-center study.
12:00 - 14:00	Lunch break at Il piccolo Mondo - Via Aurora, 39, Rome

Session 4: Sleep and Emotion: clinical aspects

14:00	Keynote speaker #5 Virginie Sterpenich: Sleeping on Rewards: Exploring Memory Reactivation in Healthy Individuals and Narcoleptic Patients.
14:30	Maeva Moyne: Impact of Motivation and Motor Function on Sleep Quality and Motor Learning in Post-Stroke Rehabilitation.
14:45	Isabella De Cuntis: Unraveling the sensory - deprived brain through the lens of sleep patterns.
15:00 - 15:15	Coffee break
15:15	Laura Riontino: Sleep deprivation alters affective and neural responses to erotic stimuli in heterosexual males.
15:30	Guillaume Legendre: Targeted neural fatigue applied to human perception.
15:45	Q&D Moderator: Giulio Bernardi.

16:30	Closing remarks