29th Bernese Sleep-Wake-Epilepsy Days 2025

The 29th Bernese Sleep-Wake-Epilepsy Days will take place on November, 6–7, 2025.

Venue
The event will take place in the Lecture Hall Langhans at the Inselspital Bern.

Language
The lectures will be held in English.

Registration
Registration is mandatory for participation. Please register until October 29, 2025.
Participation is free of charge on both days.

Registration

Program

Thursday, November 6, 2025

Sleep disordered breathing – challenge for heart and brain

10:30–10:35

Welcome

Anne-Kathrin Brill

10:35–11:05

Rhythm of the night – arrhytmia and sleep disordered breathing

Christian Horvath

11:05–11:35

SDB in acute cardiac events – diagnostic challenges and treatment

Michael Arzt

11:35–12:05

Sleep apnea in stroke

Sébastien Baillieul

12:05–12:30

Discussion

all speakers

12:30–12:45

Graduation - Master of Advanced Studies in Sleep Medicine students

Conferral of diplomas to the graduating students

Claudio Bassetti

12:45

Lunch

 

Thursday, November 6, 2025

29th Bernese Sleep-Wake-Epilepsy Symposium

13:30–13:40

Welcome

   

13:40–13:45

7th Bernese Sleep Award

   

13:45–14:30

Sleep and trauma-induced epileptogenesis – How to prevent

Igor Timofeev

 

14:30–15:00

Current insights into sleep and COVID-19: From lockdown-induced changes to long-term sleep health

Christine Blume

 

15:00–15:30

The first clock: mapping sleep and circadian development from prenatal life through infancy and beyond

Salome Kurth

 

15:30–16:00

Coffee break

   

16:00–16:15

5th Bernese Epilepsy Award

With generous support by the Kernen-Fonds

Award Presentation: Andrea Seiler

 

16:15–17:00

Night watch: How sleep shapes epilepsy

Birgit Frauscher

 

17:00–17:30

Beyond the first night: Feasibility and insight from long-term sleep-EEG in late(r)-onset epilepsy

Andrea Seiler

 

17:30–17:45

Closing remarks

   

17:45

Aperitif

   

Friday, November 7, 2025

11th ZEN Symposium

09:00–09:15

Welcome

Antoine Adamantidis

 

1st Session

 

Thalamic Structure

Chair: Markus Schmidt

 

09:15–10:00

Thalamo-cortical circuits: An orchestrator of sleep, sensory processing, and cognition in health and disease

Carolina Gutierrez Herrera

10:00–10:25

A role for the thalamus in danger-evoked awakening during sleep

Ida Luisa Boccalaro

10:25–10:50

Coffee break

 

10:50–11:35

Keynote lecture: Sleep cortical plasticity leading to memory or epilepsy?

Igor Timofeev

11:35–12:00

An anatomical and functional overview of the thalamus

Shani Folschweiller

12:00–13:00

Lunch

 

2nd Session

 

Thalamic Function

Chairs: Antoine Adamantidis & Carolina Gutierrez Herrera

 

13:00–13:45

Role of the thalamus in brain injury induced sleep impairment and epileptogenesis

Jeanne Paz

13:45–14:30

Reuniens to the rescue: Thalamic nucleus promotes cognitive resilience to alzheimer’s pathology

Inna Slutsky

14:30–14:50

Coffee break

 

3rd Session

Thalamus & Disorders

Chairs: Vincent Pernet & Maxime Baud

 

14:50–15:35

Thalamic network disconnection and cognitive impairment in multiple sclerosis

Menno Schoonheim

15:35–16:20

Pathological and physiological oscillations in the human thalamus

Birgit Frauscher

16:20–17:00

Roundtable discussion

 

17:00–17:15

Closing remarks

 

Venue

Inselspital Bern, Lecture Hall Langhans

Directions

We recommend arrival by public transport. From Bern railway station, take bus line 12 in the direction of Holligen to the „Inselspital“ stop. 

If you are travelling by car, take the „Bern Forsthaus“ motorway exit. Limited parking spaces are available in the Inselparking, the Bahnhofparking and the City West multi-storey car park.