NEUR 398: Senior Thesis Neuroscience (HC) Fall 2025

True Story:

To prep for this class I did some brainstorming about possible topics to demo. 

I decided on how brain injuries can affect behavior and I did a little googling to learn more.

I came across this article, and it peaked my interest. So I decided to look more closely at this question: 
How can brain injuries affect sleep patterns? 

Note: If your topic is too broad, pick one just one possible aspect. Possible aspects in this case include:
Can brain injuries cause insomnia (and/or hypersomnia?)
With regard to TBIs, is sleep affected differently in different populations?
Do effects on sleep depend on the type of brain injury?

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Step 1: Break up this research question into two or three main concepts. Ignore extraneous words.

• Concept #1: sleep
• Concept #2: brain injury

Step 2: Conduct an initial search with these words, and quickly scan the results. 

Step 3: Using information from your initial search, add synonyms, acronyms, and variant spellings.

• Concept #1: sleep, insomnia, hypersomnolence
• Concept #2: brain injury, tbi, concussion

• Even if the search engine you are using doesn't require you to enter boolean operators, it is still using them behind the scenes. It will help you to know the logic behind your search
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• AND gives you results that include ALL of your concepts.
   
• OR gives you results that include ANY of your concepts.
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• Essentially, you are searching:​

(sleep OR insomnia OR hypersomnolence) AND (brain injury OR tbi OR concussion)