PSYCH 4400 - To Sleep, Dream, and Remember

Fall. 4 credits.

Prerequisites: at least PSYCH 2230 or BIONB 2210. Recommended: additional course in biology, biopsychology, or neurobiology. Co-meets with PSYCH 6400.

H. S. Porte.

What brain events instigate, maintain, and switch the states of sleep? How does the brain construct a dream? What brain events produce and sustain a night terror? Does the sleeping brain work for memory or against it? These questions will be considered as problems in cognitive neuroscience. Students must be conversant with brain anatomy and brain physiology.