Subject Nursing
Topic a man who mistook his wife for a hat
Type Coursework
Level College
Style APA
Sources 2
Language English(U.S.)
Description
write 300-500 words describing the case study, including:
– What were the patient’s symptoms?
– What areas of the brain could be responsible for causing the symptoms (potentially in addition to what Dr. Sacks or Dr. Ramachandran concluded)?
– Was the patient treatable? How so?
• If not, how might the patient compensate/overcome their “obstacles”
– How common do you think the patient’s condition is? What makes the case study unique, especially compared with other patients with the same disease.
• Scientific Writing
– There are lots of science-related jobs.
• Researcher: Becoming a professor or researcher at a pharmaceutical company
– Requires you to write-up very technical journal articles, like you do in your labs!
• Journalist: Writing for a newspaper, blogs, or mainstream magazines like Discover, Popular Science, & Scientific American.
– Requires you to assume that your reader has no (or little) scientific background.
• Technical: People who evaluate inventions, venture capitalists, scientific financial advisors, consultants, patent agents.
– Requires very succinct and to-the-point writing, putting things in a very “translational” context.
For this assignment, write like a “journalist”
Please double-space your submission and use a font that is not super crazy annoying (choose Times new roman or arial are good choices. For example, if your font is like this, Neuroscience is fun!, or like this: Neuroanatomy is a breeze, I will get a headache. Choose 12 pt fonts, but what matters most is the 300-500 word requirement).
• Artwork
– Help people understand your write-up
– Make people want to learn more about the condition
– Influence people to read the book & learn about neuroscience
– Examples:
• Draw a picture of the brain, pointing out regions or circuits that the patient’s condition affected
• Make a brief YouTube video or drawing describing some of the behavioral tests used
• Are you a photographer? Take an interesting photo associated with the patient’s profession.
• Important: Be appropriate and respectful!
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