For this project you will find a peer-reviewed article (research published in a

For this project you will find a peer-reviewed article (research published in a professional journal) that deals with some aspect of brain damage in humans or mental illness and report the findings from it. There are many articles and very interesting cases in print. Keep in mind that information derived from Wikipedia is not an acceptable source of references in college (you should have stopped using Wikipedia in 8th grade). Information form encyclopedias is not acceptable either. The goal of this project is for you to identify one of the brain areas discussed in the textbook and learn about the effects that brain disease or impairment has on a person’s behavior. You will choose one article (the one that interested you the most) and write an essay (at least 3-pages) addressing the following:

(1) The purpose of the study and a descriiption of the disorder,
(2) the cause of the disorder,
(3) discuss the areas of the brain affected (most important part of your project),
(4) the effect on the person’s behavior/life,
(5) is there any treatment for the problem, and
(6) report any other piece of information from the article that you found interesting or important.

Some disorders you may encounter include agnosia, amnesia, aphasia, stroke, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s, and MS. You may go to the campus library to find articles or you may access the library web site from home and do your research from home.
Helpful hint: If you find an article that does not help you answer the six points outlined above, then, you’ve got the wrong article. An article that is only a paragraph or a page long is not going to be helpful. You MUST list the article used in a “References” section at the end of your paper following APA style.
You can find guidance on the APA style by visiting the following site:
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/reference_list_basic_rules.html
For additional information you can use the textbook for this class, but as an ADDITIONAL source, not as the main source of information. Please do not number your paragraphs!
What is a peer-reviewed article?
In academic publishing, the goal of peer review is to assess the quality of articles submitted for publication in a scholarly journal. Before an article is deemed appropriate to be published in a peer-reviewed journal, it must undergo the following process:
The author of the article must submit it to the journal editor who forwards the article to experts in the field. Because the reviewers specialize in the same scholarly area as the author, they are considered the author’s peers (hence “peer review”).
These impartial reviewers are charged with carefully evaluating the quality of the submitted manuscriipt.
The peer reviewers check the manuscriipt for accuracy and assess the validity of the research methodology and procedures.
If appropriate, they suggest revisions. If they find the article lacking in scholarly validity and rigor, they reject it.
Because a peer-reviewed journal will not publish articles that fail to meet the standards established for a given discipline, peer-reviewed articles that are accepted for publication exemplify the best research practices in a field.