Continuing Education on Sleep for Physicians
Faculty
Prof. Maria Robles, PhD
LMU Munich
The circadian clock is an endogenous timing system that regulates in a daily manner physiological functions and behavior by modulating gene expression and protein function.
Vladyslav Vyazovskiy PhD
University of Oxford
In the last decades a vast empirical and theoretical knowledge about sleep mechanisms has been accumulated. Surprisingly, the function of sleep still remains elusive. Moreover, in place of the long-standing question “why do we sleep?” now comes a more fundamental one: “what is sleep?”