Session 1.
An Impact of Sleep Research: Models from Molecule to Behavior

  • Prostaglandins and Sleep
    O. Hayaishi
  • African Sleeping Sickness and the Nervous System
    V.W. Pentreath
  • The Chemistry and Biology of Oleamides: A Sleep Inducing Lipid
    B.F. Cravatt

    • Session 2.
    Neuronal Activities during Sleep

  • Neuromodulated Sleep Circuitries That Determine Behavioral Issues
    M.H. Chase
  • Modulation of Cholinergic Neurons by Serotonin and Adenosine in the Control of REM and non-REM Sleep
     R.W. McCarley
  • A Possible Mechanism of Dynamics-Transition of Central Single Neuronal Activity during Sleep
     M. Yamamoto

    • Session 3.
    Evolution of Sleep

  • The Evolution of Waking States
    R.V. Rial
  • Sleep in Monotremes
    J. Siegel
  • Physiological and Biochemical Approach to Hibernation Control Mechanism in Mammalian Hibernators
    N. Kondo

    • Session 4.
    Homeostasis and Aging of Sleep

  • Sleep Regulation in Humans - New Perspectives
    A.A. Borbely
  • Daytime Sleepiness in Normals: Individual Defferences in Sleep Need Not Affect Ability to Fall Asleep
    T. Roth
  • Sleep-Wake Rhythm Disorders in Elderly Patients with Dementia
    Y. Hishikawa

    • Session 5.
    Hormones and Sleep

  • Modulatory Role of Sleep on Hormonal Pulsatility
    G. Brandenberger
  • Melatonin Regulation of Sleep-Wake and Gonado-Pituitary Rhythms in Humans
    P. Lavie
  • Sleep and Melatonin Rhythm in Humans
    K. Honma

    • Session 6.
    Host Defense and Sleep

  • Sleep-Wakefulness and Immune-Neuroendocrine Functions in Humans
    H. Moldofsky
  • Cytokines in Sleep Regulation
    J.M. Krueger

    • Session 7.
    Molecular Biological Approach to Sleep Research

  • Role of the Ventrolateral Preoptic Area in Sleep Induction
    C.B. Saper
  • Sleep, Sleep Regulation and Circadian Rest-Activity Rhythm in Prion Protein Knockout Mice
    I. Tobler

    • Session 8.
    Genetics of Sleep Disorders

  • Fatal Familial Insomnia
    E. Lugaresi
  • Pathophysiological and Genetical Aspects of Narcolepsy
    E. Mignot
  • Genetics of Narcolepsy
    Y. Honda

    • Session 9.
    Cognitive Functions of Dreaming Brain

  • Visual Skill Consolidation in the Dreaming Brain
    J. Askenasi
  • Thalamic Mechanisms in Sleep Control
    M. Mancia
  • Functional Meaning of Sleep and Dream: A Physiologist's Thought
    M. Ito

    • Session 10.
    Closing Remarks

  • A Function of Sleep: Neuronal Detoxification in the Brain
    S. Inoue

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