Category Archives: Seminars and symposiums

07 Nov

Program för 10 år med Stockholm Stress Center – eftermiddagen den 14 november

TidProgram
1400Välkomna
1405Några ord från rektorerna vid Stockholms universitet och Karolinska Institutet
141010 år i framkant - de viktigaste forskningsresultaten från Stockholm Stress Center
1500David Clark (UK) - Hälsoekonomi (in English)
1525Socialminister Annika Strandhäll
1535Om framtiden - avrundning av programmet av professor Mats Lekander
1540Mingel med dryck och tilltugg.
07 Nov

Program för 10 år med Stockholm Stress Center, förmiddagen den 14 november

TidProgram
0745-0820Kaffe
0820-0830Opening - Per Naroskin & prof Mats Lekander
0830-0910Prof Carmine Pariante – The effects of stress on the brain and the body
0910-0950Prof Mats Lekander – Psychological treatment of stress-related disorders
0950-1020Kaffe
1020-1100Prof Mika Kivimäki – Stress in the aetiology and prognosis of chronic diseases
1100-1140Prof Arla Day – The effects of workplace interventions on employees’ health and functioning
1140-1150Kort paus
1150-1230Prof Torbjörn Åkerstedt - Stress and recovery – is sleep important?
1230-1240Closing - Per Naroskin
17 Nov

Imaging the Sleepy Brain

Gustav Nilsonne holds lecture at the Imaging the Sleepy Brain symposium

Gustav Nilsonne holds lecture at the Imaging the Sleepy Brain symposium

At November 10th, the Imaging the Sleepy Brain symposium was held in Stockholm, Sweden. The symposium was a joint collaboration between Karolinska Institutet, The Stress Research institute and Stockholm Stress Center.

During the day, lectures by the following speakers was held:

  • Peter Fransson, KI – Functional connectivity in the human brain
  • Enzo Tagliazucchi, University of Kiel – Spontaneous brain activity fluctuations: insights from states of diminished conscious awareness
  • Philipp. G. Sämann, University of Munich – Cerebral functional network correlates of NREM sleep studied by fMRI
  • Gustav Nilsonne, KI and Stockholm university – Sleep deprivation and the brain: focus on emotion
  • Sean Drummond, UCSD – The effects of sleep deprivation on brain function and cognition
  • Peter Franzen, University of Pittsburgh – The Sleepy Teenage Brain: Implications for altered positive and negative affective function
  • Eus van Someren, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience – Large-scale internet assessment and brain imaging reveal different subtypes of insomnia.

Abstracts for the lectures are available here. 

Abstracts "Imaging the Sleepy Brain"

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All in all, the symposium was visited by app. 70 visitors and was a big success.