Course no. 1942. Secrets of sleep science [...] : course guidebook / H. Craig Heller.

Disc 1. Sweet sleep: essential for a healthy life -- What is sleep? -- Sleep across the night -- Sleep across the life span -- Who in the world sleeps? -- The timing of sleep -- Disc 2. The wheels of the circadian clock -- The deep sleep of hibernators -- The neuroanatomy and neurochemistry of sleep -- The neurophysiology of sleep -- Sleep disorders: narcolepsy -- The strange world of dreams -- Disc 3. Function of sleep: fueling the brain -- The timing and function of REM sleep -- Sleep and learning: procedural memory -- Sleep and declarative memory -- Sleep and memory in animals -- Sleep and learning disability -- Disc 4. When you cannot sleep: insomnia -- Sleep apnea -- Behavior during sleep: parasomnias -- Sleep and the rest of the body -- Improving sleep -- Sleep in the future and the future of sleep.