Unlocking the mysteries of sleep

This course is an honors seminar for first-semester undergraduate honors students.
In this seminar we will explore what is known about sleep and delve into the many unknowns. Virtually every psychiatric disorder is strongly correlated with disturbances of sleep. Is disordered sleep the cause of these psychiatric disorders, or the effect? Is it possible to diagnose psychiatric disorders by looking at patterns of sleep over the long-term? Is it possible to objectively measure the effectiveness of psychoactive medications by looking at sleep instead of just asking a patient subjective questions? Could a measure of the quality of sleep lead to a metric of general health?