In this course, we’ll expand on our knowledge of neural communication to examine how neurons work together in neural circuits to control behaviors. One of the best understood neural circuits is the one that controls our sleep-wake cycles, so we’ll use that circuit, and the experience of sleep, to explore how neurons work together in circuits to control behaviors.

Pre-requisites: This course can be taken alone, or in conjunction with ‘Cells of the Nervous System’ and ‘Using neural signaling to understand pain’ which describe the cells of our system and how they communicate. ‘Introduction to the nervous system’ recommended.

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