From July 6 till July 8, at  Aula Magna of the Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia - Centro didattico - Complesso biologico, University of Sassari will host a cycle of seminars entitled “Mechanism and functions of sleep”, held by  Prof. Chiara Cirelli, Dept. of Psychiatry, School of Medicine - University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Programme:

• Sleep: What is it and what are the neural mechanisms that regulate it.

July 6, 10:00 -13:00

• Sleep: because it is so essential.

July 7, 10:00 -13:00

• A fundamental function of sleep: maintain synaptic homeostasis.

July 8, 10:00 -13:00