We all spend almost one third of our time during sleep but most of us know and care not much more about it than by personal experience and how tired or fit we feel. While the physiological principles of sleep are extremely interesting, often not clear yet and the consequences of conditions disrupting them extreme, sleep also has many other linked consequences such as the effects of sleep on our economy, as, for example, sleep scientists during their early phase advised companies to improve sleep efficiency of their shift workers. Also a more broad impact of sleep can be asked: is good sleep only something, the wealthy can enjoy? How can school schedules be adapted to optimal sleep patterns of children and adolescents? In this reading group, we‘d like to understand sleep as a complex bio-psycho-social phenomena in a interdisciplinary way. Our readings will focus on short papers, the history of sleep science, early studies by Sigmund Freud, philosophical background and also a musical approach.
Texte:
Mapping the darkness, Kenneth Miller, One World Publications, 2023
Sleep, Max Richter, Deutsche Grammophon, 2015
Behavioral and brain responses to verbal stimuli reveal transient periods of cognitive integration of the external world during sleep, Türker et al, nature neuroscience, 2023
Dreams, Sigmund Freud, Penguin Random House, 2018 (original texts are from 1953)
Sleep, circadian rhythms, and delayed phase in adolescence, Crowley, Acebo & Carskadon, Sleep Medicine, 2007
Ein Zwei-Prozess-Modell der Schlafregulation, AA Borbély, Hum Neurobiol, 1982
Krankheitsbild chronische Insomnie – erwacht die Politik allmählich aus dem Tiefschlaf?, Ramin Khatami, NZZ, 2024: https://www.nzz.ch/meinung/krankheitsbild-chronische-insomnie-erwacht-die-politik-allmaehlich-aus-dem-tiefschlaf-ld.1771254
Narcolepsy — clinical spectrum, aetiopathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment, Bassetti et al, nature reviews neurology, 2019
Awakenings, Oliver Sacks, Random House, 1973
More texts can be added to the list depending on motivation of participants
Ort: Zürich (somewhere near university), maybe Aargau for 1 session
Zeitplan: semester, ca. 4 meetings around 90 minutes
Arbeitssprache: texts are in English (two texts in German, can be left out), discussion in the languages present
Leitung: Ema Savic and Nico Zobrist
Organisation: Stefano Aloise
Administration: Michelle Hug
Anzahl TN: Maximum 10
Zielpublikum: Students from all backgrounds, no previous medical knowledge is needed
Vorbereitungsarbeiten / Unterlagen:
See reading list and check the indications of the organisers after you received a confirmation of registration.
Weitere Informationen/ besondere Angaben:
Coordination of the reading-group using Whatsapp or Signal chat.
Anmeldefrist: July 15th, 2024
