Sleep Physiology and Pharmacological Management of Insomnia

We are delighted to be joined by the following speakers:

• Professor Vladyslav Vyazovskiy – Sleep physiology - from mechanisms to functions. This tall help you understand how sleep is defined based on behavioural and electrophysiological characteristics, identify key processes responsible for sleep regulation, explain the key functions of sleep for the brain, and discuss the wider roles of sleep in maintaining body physiology and health
• Dr Ruta Kontautaite – New medications for insomnia
• Dr Hugh Selsick - Pharmacological Management of Insomnia. This talk will take a very practical approach to treating insomnia with medications, including in patients with psychiatric comorbidities. 

Professor Vladyslav Vyazovskiy

Vladyslav graduated from Kharkiv National University, Ukraine, in 1997, and in 2004 he received his PhD degree at the University of Zurich.

Following postdoctoral and lecturership positions at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Surrey University, he joined the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (DPAG) at the University of Oxford in 2013 as a Senior Research Fellow, before becoming Associate Professor of Neuroscience in 2015 and Professor of Sleep Physiology in 2021.

Since 2020, he is a Tutorial Fellow in Medicine at Hertford College, and is a member of Sir Jules Thorn Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute (SCNi) and Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery. Vladyslav Vyazovskiy is a Vice-President of the European Sleep Research Society and a Director of Graduate Studies at DPAG. His research interests include neurobiology of sleep and torpor, behaviour, neuropharmacology and mechanisms of brain oscillations during waking and sleep.

Dr Ruta Kontautaite

Dr Kontautaite is a Consultant Neuropsychiatrist at Birmingham and Solihull NHS Foundation Trust.

She obtained her medical degree from Vilnius University, Faculty of Medicine, Lithuania in 2006. Dr Kontautaite completed all her postgraduate training in the West Midlands deanery.

She holds the European Sleep Research society qualification of Expert Somnologist.  She was actively involved in clinical research for epilepsy. She is an academic secretary in West Midlands Division of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and a member of executive committee of the Neuropsychiatry Faculty of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

Her clinical interests include sleep disorders, Huntington’s disease, functional neurological disorders, epilepsy with mental health co-morbidity. 

Dr Hugh Selsick

Hugh studied Physiology and Medicine at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, before specialising in Adult and Addictions Psychiatry at the Maudsley and the North London training schemes.

He established the Insomnia and Behavioural Sleep Medicine Clinic at the Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine/University College London Hospitals, the first of its kind in the UK, and is the lead clinician there. He also worked as a consultant in the Sleep Disorders Centre at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital.

He founded the Sleep Special Interest Group in the Royal College of Psychiatrists and is past president of the Sleep Medicine Section at the Royal Society of Medicine. He is co-author of Oxford Case Histories in Sleep Medicine (2015) and editor of Sleep Disorders in Psychiatric Patients: A Practical Guide (2018). He has also contributed to numerous textbooks on sleep and psychiatry

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