Checking date: 12/02/2024


Course: 2023/2024

Sleep Neuroscience
(19804)
Bachelor in Neuroscience (Plan: 517 - Estudio: 389)


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Type: Electives
ECTS Credits: 6.0 ECTS

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Skills and learning outcomes
Description of contents: programme
1. Neurobiology of sleep. Anatomical-physiological, cellular and neurochemical bases. 2. Biological Rhythms and Chronobiology. Sleep and wakefulness. Phases of sleep. 3. Biological and cognitive processes linked to sleep. Memory and sleep. 4. Sleep Pathologies. Insomnia, Hypersomnia, Parasomnia, Motor disorders. 5. Pharmacological bases of the treatment of sleep disorders.
Learning activities and methodology
Classroom lectures. Face-to-face classes: reduced (workshops, seminars, case studies). Student individual work. Final exam. Seminars and lectures supported by computer and audiovisual aids. Practical learning based on cases and problems, and exercise resolution. Individual and group or cooperative work with the option of oral or written presentation. Individual and group tutorials to resolve doubts and queries about the subject.
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination 60
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 40

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.