Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to the annual Symposium of Sleep Medicine, organized by the Neurocenter of Southern Switzerland.

Four years after the recognition of our center as a Quality Care Center for Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS) we are happy to dedicate the meeting to RLS and periodic limb movements (PLM). Both are frequent clinical conditions with a major impact on quality of life, but still under-recognized. Despite recent promising advances in the field, the mechanism behind RLS and the clinical meaning of PLM remain unclear and represent one of the most intriguing mystery for sleep specialists. There is also an urgent need for new effective treatment strategies in RLS. The dream of a safe and sustained management of RLS with dopamine-agonists has progressively melted under the sun of the “augmentation”, which is the main long-term complication in RLS treatment