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Mechanisms and functions of sleep and of circadian rhythms. Modification of sleep patterns due to mental illness. Circadian and seasonal rhythms. Sleep and dreaming.

A manual of standardized terminology, techniques and scoring system for sleep stages of human subjects:A. Rechtschaffen and A. Kales (Editors). (Public Health Service, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington
The Rhythms Of Life: The Biological Clocks That Control the Daily Lives of Every Living ThingLeon Kreitzman , Russell Foster, Profile Books, 2011
Rapid Eye Movement Sleep, Birendra N. Mallick , S.R.Pandi-Perumal, Robert W. McCarley,Adrian R. Morrison, Cambridge, 2011.

Knowledge on functions of sleep and of circadian rhythms.

Background on basic physiology

Presentation of relevant literature, eeg staging , discussion on models of sleep studies.

Discussion on the different topics presented, ability to recognize typical sleep patterns, significance of sleep studies.

Sleep : Theories on sleep function. Sleep duration: short and long sleepers.
Sleep Assessment Methodologies : Polysomnography, sleep stages (stage scoring and analysis methods)
 Delta sleep :  restorative function, homeostasis, delta sleep significance for mental processes. 
REM sleep: Hypothesis on REM sleep function, REM regulation: circadian and homeostatic hypotheses.
Sleep regulation models. Homeostatic and restorative hypotheses, circadian factors,REM regulation, tonic and phasic aspects.
Biological Rhythms: Classifiication of rhythms (Ultradian, circadian, sesonal) and their role on psychological functions, circadian pacemaker, suprachiasmatic nuclei.
 Melatonina. Regulation of melatonin secretion. Seasonal Rhythm. Seasonal Affective Disorder.
Dreaming : theories  on dreaming functions.Sigmund Freud and psychoanalitic theory of dreaming, Bion, consciounsness and dreaming. 
Dreaming Psychophysiology.  Hobson and  McCarley activation synthesis model. Dreaming, the neoropsychological approach. 
Drug effects on sleep and dreaming.
Mental processes and sleep.Memory, cognition and sleep: Experimental models and theories.
Sleep Disorders
Sleep and psychiatryc illnesses: REM sleep and depression; Sleep and circadian rhythm in schizophrenia;Sleep and anxiety disorders. Sleep and Alzheimer.