With just under 4 weeks until the Vagus@Sea congress, we would like to introduce you to some of our speakers and the topics with which they will inspire you.
The first speaker we would like to introduce you to is Prof. Max Moser PhD.
Born August 16th, 1956 in Klagenfurt, Austria, I studied biology and human physiology in Graz, Austria. After an assistant professorship at the Physiological Institute in Graz I was visiting
assistant professor at the UVA (University of Virginia, Dept of Biomedical Engineering) in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1988.
Prof. Max Moser PhD at the congress:
Biological rhythms are present in the whole organism as well as within each living cell. Some of these rhythms reflect adaptations to cosmic cycles and help to anticipate changes in the environment. Others integrate and coordinate body functions. Extensive coordination has been found between different rhythms, indicating a systemic temporal cooperation. Rhythms and their interaction might be more important for our health than realized before. Disturbance of the circadian rhythms by night shift work or jet lag not only disturbs our metabolic balance but also increases the risk of cancer and cardiovascular diseases, which together account for 70% of all causes of death in industrialized countries. Rhythms in the organism obviously stabilize the systemic functions: They maintain organismic stability by calibrating the system’s characteristics during sleep and rest, when rhythms are also most active. Regulation curves in time and space are crucial for controlling physiological long-term stability. Methods like the chronocardiogram allow the visualization of the body´s proprietary rhythms which are present in long term heart beat recordings or brain waves. Similar to spatial X-ray images of the body, they provide a temporal image of our biological time structure.
