100263: Brain Basics: Understanding Sleep

About the Course:

Sleep affects our daily functioning and our physical and mental health in many ways that we are just beginning to understand. This is a basic course intended for professionals wishing to update their knowledge on the subject of sleep and it’s disorders.

Author

National Institues of health

About the Author:

National Institue of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

Course Objectives:

1. to identify the various sleep stages and how they affect people’s lives

2. to recognize how the brain interprets the various sleep stages through brain waves

3. to be able to identify sleeping disorders and how they relate to everyday life