Alex Bäcker's Teaching

During 1998-2000, I taught a course on Sleep & Dreams (reviews for the first edition --Caltech's Course Evaluation Guide limits access to Caltech IPs) that Gabriel Kreiman and I created, Bi/CNS 163. To find out some of the cool facts about sleep & dreams, see an article I wrote a few years ago: To sleep, perchance to dream.
Here are the notes for the lecture on sleep I delivered at the Intro to Neurobiology course in 2000.
Below are notes for a couple of my lectures at the Sleep course:
Thermoregulation & Sleep
Evolution of Sleep
REM, Narcolepsy & loose ends.

Before that, I helped teach Neurobiology (Bi/CNS 150) and Neurophysiology Lab (Bi/CNS 162) to undergraduate and graduate students at Caltech. It's good to remind oneself that there are a couple -just a couple- of things we know about the brain already. Here is my summarized version of that: lecture notes for my lecture on Everything you ever wanted to know about the BRAIN but were afraid to ask.