2 CME Credits: Albert Einstein College of Medicine-Montefiore Medical Center, Center for Continuing Professional Development (Einstein-Montefiore CCPD)

SLEEP PHYSIOLOGY

What is Sleep?
Why do we sleep?
Prevalence of Healthy Sleep Duration
Sleep Duration and Age
Restorative Glymphatics
Astrocytes
Sleep Deprivation and Astrocytes
Ionic Control of Sleep
Memory Processing
Metabolomics
Active sleep
Functional Neuroimaging of Dreams
Neural Correlates of Dreaming
Brain activity during sleep
NREM Sleep and Brain Wide Pulsations
Brain-Wide PulsationsBrain-Wide PulsationsBrain-Wide Pulsations
REM sleep
Non-REM sleep
Typical sleep stages
REM/NREM comparison
Hypercapnia and sleep
Sleep Need
Sleep varies with age
Hyperexcitability
Determinants of sleep
Melatonin
Vitamin D
Homeostasis – circadian arousal
Homeostasis – sleep pressure
Circadian Rhythms and Infertility
Temperature
Free-running rhythms
Light and the clock
Phase response curve
Individual differences
Sleep genes
Genetics of Circadian Rhythms
Hepatic Steatosis
Circadian Rhythms and Vaccines
Microbiome
Age – sleep complaints
Age – awakenings
Age – sleep efficiency
Age – sleep stages
Age – sleep latency
Age – naps
Sleep Duration, Naps and Mortality
Age – summary
Individual sleep differences
Anterior Insula Activation
Athletes and Sleep
Overall summary


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