Presentactivities，workinggroups，taskforces

Since 1992，AIMS organizes yearly a national Sleep Congress in different cities，where an accredited Sleep Center operates regularly.This event leads sleep physicians to share and debate new clinical and research data，meet experts from other countries and most of all offers the opportunity for young investigators to present updated results of trials and studies.The elections for the new board and executive committee of the Society are held every three years，on the occassion of the national Congress.

We have 11 active Committees(Ventilation for Sleep Disordered Breathing，Accreditation of Sleep Centers，Sleep Expert Examination，Sleep and Gender，Scientific Committee for the Residential Course，Society Newsletter，Occupational Medicine，Sleepiness and Road Safety，ORL and Maxillo-Facial Surgery，Cardiology，and Dental Sleep Medicine).

MiscellaneousIn 2010 SIMSO(Italian Society for Dental Sleep Medicine)has been founded under the endorsement of AIMS.

Current President：Prof.Dr.Roberto Amici

Foundationyear1995

Webpagewww.ricercasulsonno.it

Numberofmembers53

Compositionofmembers(degree，specialties，subspecialties，etc.)

Physiologists and psychologists involved in basic sleep research on human subjects and animal models and in teaching to undergraduate and graduate students at academic Institutions.

Historicalperspectiveofthesociety

The Italian Sleep Research Society was founded in 1995 to promote scientific interactions among laboratories of physiology and psychology committed to basic research on sleep and dreams at different academic Institutions throughout Italy.The Society has since then worked to foster basic sleep research with particular attention to training and support of young scientists.

Importantsleepphysicians/researchersinthehistoryoftheNSS

Important sleep researchers in the history of the Italian Sleep Research Society include Mario Bertini，Marino Bosinelli，Carlo Cipolli，Igino Fagioli，Carlo Franzini，Mauro Mancia，Maurizio Mariotti，Pier Luigi Parmeggiani，Piero Salzarulo

NumberofSleepMedicineCenters(linktotheirtitlesandlocations)

In agreement with its mission focused on basic sleep research，the Society does not include sleep medicine centers.

NumberofSleepResearchCenters(linktotheirtitlesandlocations)

Members of the Society direct or contribute to the activities of 12 Centers for Basic Sleep Research:

Laboratory of Sleep Psychophysiology and Cognitive Neuroscience，University of L′Aquila

(http://sds.cc.univaq.it/index.php?id=282)

Laboratory of Physiological Regulation in the Wake-Sleep Cycle，University of Bologna

(http://www.esrs.eu/membership-services/european-sleep-research-laboratories.html?tx_mnmesrslab_pi1%5Buid%5D=4)

PRISM：Laboratory of Physiological Regulation in Sleeping Mice，University of Bologna

(http://www.esrs.eu/membership-services/european-sleep-research-laboratories.html?tx_mnmesrslabpi1%5Buid%5D=5938)

Laboratory of Sleep and Dream Psychophysiology，University of Bologna

(http://www.psicologia.unibo.it/Psicologia/Risorse+e+strutture/Laboratori/LabPsicoSonSogn.htm)

Laboratory of Sleep Research，University of Florence Sleep Laboratory，University of Milan(http://users.unimi.it/imeri/)

TMS-EEG Laboratory，University of Milan Laboratory of Sleep Psychophysiology，University of Naples II Laboratory of Sleep Psychophysiology，University of Padua(http://ppl.psy.unipd.it/laboratory/SPL.htm)

Laboratory of Sleep Psychophysiology，University of Rome “Sapienza”(http://w3.uniroma1.it/labsonno/)

Unit for the assessment and treatment of sleep disorders，University of Rome “Sapienza”

(http://w3.uniroma1.it/dip39/index.php/it/servizi/disturbi-del-sonno)

Laboratory of Sleep Psychophysiology，University of Trieste.

Accreditation/CertificationprocedureNone.