neuroscience paper, health and medicine homework help

Final Paper Assignment

For the final paper, you will choose an area of interest within the field of neuroscience and

provide a brief summary, locate and summarize a recent popular media story, summarize the

source article, and provide a comparative analysis from your informed perspective.

Step 1:

Select a topic in neuroscience-that is of interest to you. Present relevant history and current

knowledge in this field. Your textbook is an excellent resource.

Step 2:

Summarize a popular press story that presents research findings in your area of interest. Read

and summarize the story and write a summary of the focus, information, and presentation of the

information.

The story must have been published no earlier than 2011. The following media sources are

suggestions, however other sources are acceptable, including news from social networks.

Step 3:

Summarize the source article that your popular media story is based on. This summary will fully

incorporate a minimum of two references pulled from your peer-reviewed primary article.

The source article must have been published by a respected, peer-refereed journal, no earlier than

2010.

The article must include full description of one or more empirical quantitative studies. Purely

theoretical or review papers are not acceptable. Articles describing qualitative research (e.g., case

studies, anecdotal evidence, anthropological or informal methodologies) are not acceptable for

this assignment.

The following are journal suggestions, however articles in other respected, peer-refereed journal

are also acceptable.

Step 4:

Present a comparative evaluation of the accuracy and perspective of the popular media story

based upon your evaluation of the source article and your own informed neuroscience

perspective.

(4~5pages, references is not included, 2~3references in total)