TY - JOUR T1 - Scientific highlights from the European Sleep Research Society Congress, 2008 JF - Breathe JO - Breathe SP - 248 LP - 251 DO - 10.1183/18106838.0503.248 VL - 5 IS - 3 AU - E.A. Goff AU - M.L. Jackson AU - Z.F. Shaikh AU - A. Atalla AU - C.M. Hill AU - M.J. Morrell Y1 - 2009/03/01 UR - http://breathe.ersjournals.com/content/5/3/248.abstract N2 - Summary You simply cannot go to Glasgow in Scotland and be a shrinking violet. Or at least this is what we were told when we attended the European Sleep Research Society (ESRS) Congress in Glasgow in 2008. This report aims to illustrate how collaboration and communication between specialists can help to facilitate breakthroughs in clinical practice. We leave it up to the reader to decide whether those who attended also made breakthroughs in learning local customs. ER -