Tawisook Neurosciences

Tawisook Neurosciences

Synthesis Paper  Tawisook !1
Som Tawisook Professor Scott Templin PSYCH360: Behavioral Neuroscience February 18, 2016
Synthesis paper INSTRUCTIONS:
Worth 20% of your grade as a 5 page essay; this will be an effort by the student to demonstrate a synthesis of knowledge. Students will accomplish this by choosing a journal article. The article must report a set of behavioral neuroscience experiments.
Using knowledge gained from the course you will briefly summarize the article (intro, methods, results) and then, more importantly, provide your interpretation of the results presented in the article. To fully demonstrate your synthesis of knowledge, the final section of the paper will require you to relate these findings & interpretations with an external topic relevant to the class.
A few examples of “external topics”: personal health (sleep, diet, exercise) or medical technology (pacemakers for the brain). This should take the form of a commentary where you make a few observations or raise questions, while citing scientific knowledge (the article you found for starters) to buttress your points.
An example: A research article on gene editing that is summarized and its importance explained by way of describing cutting edge medical treatments gene editing could enable. This would be followed by a brief discussion of ethical considerations (ie the raising questions part) with for example, editing human embryonic DNA.
The critique should be 5 typed, double-spaced pages in length.

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Professor Jay Scott Templin

PSYCH306: Behavioral Neuroscience

March 10, 2016

Alzheimer’s Disease

Article summary

Introduction

            According to this article, Alzheimer disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia among the elderly members of the society. The disease is a neurodegenerative disorder that cannot be reversed. Patients suffering from this disorder experience loss of memory besides psychopathic behaviors. A few years ago, it was estimated that over 26.6 million people…………..

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