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futurepsychonaut · Joined: 22 Oct 2006 Posts: 2 Location: UNCW

I need help deciding on an Honors project. It is not really due anytime real soon, but it wouldnt hurt for me to get some solid ideas. I am getting a BA in Psychology and a BS in Biology and would really like to persue Neropsychology in the future. My father had a massive stroke in early July of this year and seeing his struggle and slow recovery has really led me to persue this field.

Now, in order to graduate with university honors, I will need to do a thesis paper and I would like it to involve strokes and their effects somehow. If anyone has any ideas on a good topic I would love to hear them so I can mold them into a solid project. Thank you all.

By the way, I am new to this forum so please be nice ^_^
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lash · Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 8:35 pm Post subject:

I assume this is a research paper, not an experiment. Well, strokes can have lots of different effects, so you might want to narrow that down a little. Why don't you find out as much as you can about where your father's stroke was, and write a paper about the effects of strokes in that location? That might be helpful for you personally in addition to giving you a thesis topic.
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futurepsychonaut · Joined: 22 Oct 2006 Posts: 2 Location: UNCW

The stroke was concentrated on his left side. The effect on his speech is of great interest to me as well.
Thank you for your help.
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lash · Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 4:18 pm Post subject:

If that's too general a topic, you can find out whether it was the whole left side, or just part of it, and which part(s). But you also might consider doing a paper on the different types of language disorders (aphasia) and discuss some aspect of them (where the damage in the brain occurs for each one, or what treatments there are, or something like that). You can always narrow it down if that's too general.
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