Institute for Continuing Education

Basics of Sleep Behavior

Course Objectives

Upon successful completion of this module, you will be able to:

• Define and discuss the word “sleep”.
• Identify and discuss just “what goes on” in our brains and bodies when we sleep.
• Identify and explain the various methods for tracking brain activity during sleep.
• Explain what is meant by the phylogeny of sleep.
• Describe how sleep differs between animals/man, the young and the old.

Course Information

Basics of Sleep research is a comprehensive syllabus which considers sleep and its functions and describes the processes that occur in the brain during sleep.