Good Sleep for Good Health

Sleep plays a vital role in good health and well-being throughout life. During sleep, our body works to support healthy brain function and maintain physical and mental health. Getting inadequate sleep over time impairs proper cognitive and behavioral function, affecting how we think, react, work, learn, and get along with others. Furthermore, unhealthy sleep increases the risk of many health complications, including heart disease, kidney disease, hypertension, diabetes, stroke, and obesity. If you have ever wondered, why do we sleep, what happens in our brain while we sleep, or which are the consequences of not sleeping well, enjoy this talk!

Speaker: Lucía Pinilla (Group of Precision Medicine in Chronic Diseases (Biomedical Research Institute of Lleida (IRBLleida), Lleida, Spain); Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Madrid, Spain; Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Sponsor: RCC; Biomedical Research Institute of Lleida; CIBERES; Harvard Medical School