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sleep&development@KISPI – University Children’s Hospital Zurich

sleep&development@KISPI - University Children's Hospital Zurich

Child Development Center

sleep&development@KISPI

Contact: Reto  
Huber
Position: Prof. SNF
Address: Steinwiesstrasse 75, 8032
City: Zurich
Country: Switzerland
Phone: +41 44 266 81 60
Contact Email: reto.huber@kispi.uzh.ch
Website: https://www.kispi.uzh.ch/de/Seiten/default.aspx
RESEARCH DOMAIN: Basic Animal, Basic Human
KEYWORDS: Learning, Memory, Cognition, Sleep and Ageing, Sleep Physiology-Neurophysiology in Human, Sleep Physiology-Neurophysiology in Animal
Laboratory Description:

Topics:
Sleep in healthy subjects and clinical populations (ADHD, early onset shizophrenia, sleep disordered breathing, mental retardation) in relation to:
– development/brain maturation
– synaptic plasticity
– learning&memory
– cognition
– genetics
Manipulation of human sleep with radiofrequency electromagnetic fields
Sleep, behaviour and developement in rodents

Methods:
Human studies
– high density EEG
– anatomical/structural MR
– different learning tasks (e.g. Motor Task Manager, Motor sequence learning)
– IQ measures
– Different questionnaires

Animal studies
– ECoG
– Histology

COLLABORATIONS:

  • PhD, MD Giulio Tononi
  • PhD, MD Marcello Massimini
  • PhD Peter Achermann
  • PhD, MD Oskar Jenni
  • MD Bernhard Schmitt
  • MD Bea Latal