Basic Sleep Mechanisms and Sleep Disorders: From Neurobiology to Sleep Medicine

Covers the neurobiology of sleep, including brain structures, circadian and homeostatic regulation, and sleep disorders.

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Recorded instructors · Fall 2026 Chiara Cirelli

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.25 GPA, 50.0% A/AB (n=24 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.39 GPA, 57.9% A/AB (n=38 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.44 GPA, 68.0% A/AB (n=25 letter grades).

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PSYCH 454 and ZOOLOGY/​PSYCH 523 or graduate/professional standing

NTP 677

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Professors

Fall 2026

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.25 GPA, 50.0% A/AB (n=24 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.39 GPA, 57.9% A/AB (n=38 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.44 GPA, 68.0% A/AB (n=25 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

CHIARA CIRELLI is recorded teaching in Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023, Fall 2024, Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Fall 2026

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Student experience

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.25 GPA, 50.0% A/AB (n=24 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.39 GPA, 57.9% A/AB (n=38 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.44 GPA, 68.0% A/AB (n=25 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Brain structures controlling wake and sleep.
  • Circadian and homeostatic regulation of sleep.
  • Synaptic homeostasis, learning, and memory.
  • Sleep need with age, animal models, sleep disorders, and genetics.

Skills

  • Analyze brain structures and regulatory mechanisms controlling wake and sleep.
  • Evaluate hypotheses regarding sleep's role in synaptic homeostasis, learning, and memory.
  • Examine sleep changes across age, animal models, disorders, and genetics.

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NTP 677 · Fall 2026

Basic Sleep Mechanisms and Sleep Disorders: from Neurobiology to Sleep Medicine

Recorded 2026-09-07
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