INB-Lunch-Seminar

An Introduction to Sleep

Hong-Viet Victor Ngo

As the INB has quite recently been extended by a new group devoted to sleep research, the purpose of this talk is to give an introduction for the members of the INB and of course any other interested people on this exciting and in many aspects still mysterious field.

The content will be kept very basic and easily digestible, in order to make everyone familiar with the important notions/terms and interesting facts regarding sleep. Therefore the talk begins with important characteristics that distinguish sleep from the waking state and afterwards moves over to a little bit more advanced topics such as sleep regulation and plasticity and then covers a few aspects on sleep disorder.

Optionally and actually more dependent on whether there will be promising results before then, I might exploit this opportunity to conclude with a few words about the ideas behind my PhD thesis and the sleep study I am currently conducting.