Interfakultäre Forschungskooperation Schlaf

Die Interfakultäre Forschungskooperation “Decoding Sleep: From Neurons to Health & Mind” ist ein interdisziplinäres Projekt, welches durch die Universität Bern gefördert wird und am 1. März 2018 gestartet hat. 13 Forschungsgruppen der Phil.-nat., der Medizinischen und der Phil.-hum. Fakultät sind am Projekt beteiligt. Ihre Expertise umfasst die Bereiche Medizin, Psychologie, Psychiatrie und Informatik.

Die Forschungskooperation will die Mechanismen von Schlaf, Bewusstsein und Kognition und deren Bedeutung für die Gesundheit aber auch neurologische und körperliche Erkrankungen besser verstehen. Letztlich sollen die erlangten Erkenntnisse dazu beitragen, neue Ansätze für die personalisierte Therapie von Schlaf-Wach- und psychiatrischen Störungen zu entwickeln.

Forschungsprojekte (Englische Website)

Team (Englische Website)

NEWS

UniPress Schlaf fürs Gehirn

The Unipress #176 focuses on the topic of Sleep and includes several contributions of the IRC "Decoding Sleep" (publication in German).

IRC lab Tour at the Institute for Infectious Diseases

Denis Grandgirard and Gabriele Chiffi gave a fantastic tour through the IFIK and showed us their newly established zebrafish facility, the Morris water maze installation and explained about stem cell transplantation and much more. It was very interesting.

The next IRC Lab Tour will take place on April, 8 at the Institute of Psychology.

Learning new vocabulary during deep sleep

Katharina Henke, Marc Züst and Simon Ruch of the IRC "Decoding Sleep", showed that we can acquire the vocabulary of a new language during distinct phases of slow-wave sleep and that the sleep-learned vocabulary could be retrieved unconsciously following waking. Memory formation appeared to be mediated by the same brain structures that also mediate wake vocabulary learning.

Learning during Sleep

Is learning during sleep possible? Simone Ruch in interview on Radio RaBe (in Swiss German)

Kinderuniversität on the topic of sleep

Prof. Thomas König and Dr. Leila Tarokh participated at the Kinderuniversität Bern. They gave a lecture and organized an interactive program on the topic of sleep. Among others they informed about different aspects of sleep, showed how an EEG measurement works and discussed and answered the different questions of the kids.

IRC Decoding Sleep Symposium 2018

The exchange with our IRC Advisory Board was officially launched during the IRC Decoding Sleep Symposium on October, 17. The conference - including two fantastic key note lectures and promising contributions of young scientistis - was of great success.

Next year's Symposium will take place on December 4, 2019.

IRC lab Tour @ the ZEN (Carolina Gutierrez Herrera)

In order to increase collaboration between members of the IRC Decoding Sleep, we initiated lab visits. 13 researchers joined the first visit at the ZEN. Carolina showed us their animal facility and the surgery room and kindly explained about their main methods and ongoing research projects. Thank you, Carolina, for hostig us!

Research Cooperation "Decoding Sleep"

Die Forschungskooperation "Decoding Sleep: From Neurons to Health & Mind" will die Mechanismen von Schlaf, Bewusstsein und Kognition und deren Bedeutung für die Gesundheit, aber auch für die Gehirnfunktionen und die körperliche Leistung besser verstehen.

A single control center for sleep and wake in the brain

Until now, it was thought that multiple brain areas were needed to control sleep and wakefulness. Neuroscientists from Bern have now identified one single control center for the sleep-wake cycle in the brain. The findings are of great importance for finding new sleep therapies.

PI Carolina Gutierrez Herrera in interview about her research topic (in Spanish)

Carolina Gutierrez Herrera arrived in Switzerland in 2014. She is a research associate at the Center for Experimental Neurology (ZEN) at the Inselspital in Bern. Her research focuses on the interaction of different brain areas that allow proper balance between sleep and wake and ultimately aims at finding the neuronal networks underlying sleep problems such as insomnia.

Joint Research Effort

The University of Bern is strengthening interdisciplinarity and excellence in scientific research through the recently launched Interfaculty Research Cooperations.

Decoding Sleep

What happens while we sleep and what can we do if our sleep-wake rhythm is disrupted? Claudio Bassetti and Fred Mast, the coordinators of the new Interfaculty Research Cooperation (IRC) "Decoding Sleep", want to find out. "uniaktuell" spoke to the Professor of Neurology and the Professor of General Psychology.

University of Bern enhances research across disciplines

Research at the University of Bern is being intensified: Networking projects from different subject areas are being supported with three new Interfaculty Research Collaborations IRC. The projects deal with the health of environment, animals and humans, with religious conflicts and with sleep.

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