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In order to be able to understand sleep problems, it is important to understand the basic knowledge about sleep. This course is ment to help you to teach yourself about the many basic aspects of sleep. The course is based on the ESRS text book “Sleep Medicine”, and it also acts as an additional help to gain sufficient knowledge to pass the ESRS sleep specialist examination. Understanding physiological and neurobiological basis of sleep and its regulation forms the basis for understanding the plethora of outcomes of disturbed sleep. Sleep medicine relies on the knowledge of sleep physiology, and development of new treatments is possible only with full understanding of the underlying mechanism and their disturbances. Research produces new knowledge about…