A. Physiological basis of sleep
This course will help you to learn about the basic concepts of sleep: how sleep is defined, measured and regulated, and what happens if you do not get enough sleep.
The course is based on the ESRS Textbook “Sleep Medicine”, particularly the part A (Physiological basis of sleep), and it acts as an additional help to gain sufficient knowledge to pass the ESRS sleep specialist examination.
The course is divided into eleven main sections (A1 – A11), each with different number of subsections. Each subsection consists of a teaching video and a variable number of interviews related to the topic. The interviews were made at the ESRS congress 2018.
In the end of each major topic, the reader finds some single-choice-questions quizzes for testing the level of the own knowledge . For every quiz, there is 15 minutes time to answer the questions (all quizzes coming soon).
Features
- A. 1 Neural control of wakefulness and NREM sleep
- A. 1.1 Definition and structure of sleep
- A. 1.2 Introduction to measurement of sleep
- A. 1.3 Neurochemistry and anatomy of sleep regulation
- A. 1.4 Sleep-wake regulation and the two-process model
- A. 1.5 Genetic regulation of sleep
- A. 2 The neurobiology of REM sleep
- A. 3 Adaptation of bodily functions to sleep
- A. 3.1 Adaptation of bodily functions to sleep
- A. 3.2 Hormone secretion and sleep
- A. 3.3 Temperature regulation and sleep
- A. 4 Theories on the function of sleep
- A. 5 Sleep and psychology (cognitive and emotional processes)
- A. 5.1 Sleep, learning and memory
- A.5.2 Sleep and mental health
- A. 6. Effects of acute and chronic sleep deprivation
- A. 7 Sleep and dreaming
- A. 8 Sleep in the course of life span (early development, adolescence, geriatric sleep)
- A. 9 Gender differences in sleep
- A. 10 Circadian biology/Chronobiology
- A. 10.1 Basics of the circadian rhythms
- A. 10.2 Jet lag and shift work
- A. 11 The effect of pharmacological treatments on sleep