PSYC 3345 - Sleep and Dreams

UG
Credit Hours: 3

This course is an upper level elective for students majoring in general psychology or neurocognitive psychology, or minoring in psychology or neurocognitive psychology. This course addresses the latest findings from sleep research. This course examines states and stages of the nightly sleep cycle, neurology of sleep and the brain’s circadian clock, consequences of sleep deficit, possible role of dreams, sleep changes across the human life span, comparisons between sleep functions in humans and other species, connections between sleep, learning and memory, sleep disorders, and possible therapies and treatments of sleep disorders.

Prerequisites: PSYC 1340.
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0

When Offered: (Spring)