Save the dates for the 2009 Southern Sleep Society Meeting which will cover novel topics on new techniques and devices for treating obstructive sleep apnea, home sleep studies, new standards of accreditation, novel sleeping agents, animal studies of insomnia, new cognitive and behavioral treatments of insomnia, stimulant medications for treating sleep disorders, new cataplexy treating agents, the new scoring rules, ethical and legal guidelines in treating sleep disorders, indications for the use of actigraphy, new guidelines for the use of melatonin and bright light, scales for evaluating sleep disorders, anatomical models of REM/NREM sleep, new theories of sleep and its function and new imaging techniques.