How the Brain Creates Mind
How the Brain Creates Mind. Instructor: Dr. Alok Bajpai, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Kanpur. This course intends to introduce the human brain and its processes especially with regards to electrochemical activity, the issues of mind and consciousness. It also indicates towards further possibilities of research. Anyone with an interest in Human brain can join. Just a basic understanding of Brain would suffice. It should be useful for students of Neurosciences, Psychology, Medical and people working at brain computer interface. (from nptel.ac.in)
| Lecture 18 - Sleep 3 |
This lecture deals with the different types of biological rhythms functioning in the brain with a procedure to measure the biological rhythms. It includes a detailed investigation on sleep and its modern classifications, major issues in the analysis, stages of sleep and wakefulness explained through polysomnography, Neural mechanisms of sleep and waking, sleep architecture over life span with other subtopics.
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