Neuro-Connect
Quick Description: While my teacher was on paternity leave, our temporary biology teacher conducted a neuroscience project with us. We got to choose our own neuroscience topics and drafted an experiment that we would like to complete under the topic that we picked, although we were not able to actually perform those tests. The topic that I chose for this project was Music Ahedonia, a disorder in the brain that restricts a person from being able to connect to music. I wrote a research proposal, which you can read below, and to the right is a reflection on the project.
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Reflection:
Over the course of this project, I wrote a research proposal paper (below) that was based on the information that I had learned throughout this project. I chose a question that I was interested in, and one that would be useful to the scientific community if answered. I researched all about it, and chose a few different parts of the brain that connected to the question to research more about and create an experiment for. We also learned all about organisms that scientists use to test on as well as machines and techniques and what types of experiments they are used for. From this, we could create an idea of what we would want to test. This was very interesting because we also got to think about scientific morals and what our experimental morals would be. I really enjoyed this project because I got to choose my own topic. I got to research something in the brain that I wanted to learn about and that connects to my hobbies outside of school. We learned a lot about about how to properly look up our topics, so we got a lot of time to conduct quality research. After that, we had to create the research proposal step by step, one section at a time. This was great because we were able to critique it more and make sure it was quality work. I had a little trouble in the middle of this project because I switched topics. I couldn't think of a potential experiment and was more interested in this disorder. |