FS 101 Mind Myths  

FS 101:  Mind Myths

 Professor: Jeff Cross

Librarian: Cynthia Burton, x2982

Link to Class Survey

Create  an annotated bibliography on any one of the following:

Parkinson's disease- causes

Parkinson's disease - treatments

Parkinson's disease - brain grafts

Parkinson's disease - neuroglia   (microglia; astrocytes) 
Microglia and astrocytes are two different types of neuroglia that have been implicated as "involved" with degenerative disease processes.

Limit your  search dates to the past six years.

Truncate Keywords in the search
    neurobehavio* will search for:
neurobehavior, neurobehaviour, neurobehavioural, neurobehavioral, neurobehaviours, etc.

Use Boolean Operators to improve results

    or    either word will be retrieved   
          neurorehabilitation or neuroplasticity

    and   both words must be in the result   glia* and dopamine

   and (or)   to combine related terms 

       parkinson's and (glia*  or neuroglia or  neuron*)

Begin with keywords, look for Subject Headings assigned by the index:

   Find a good source with keyword searching
   Click on Full Record
   Look for Subjects or Descriptors to find more like this:

 Parkinson Disease---> Antiparkison agents

Sample Search in Academic OneFile:

Academic OneFile contains articles published between 1980 and 2012.  
Some may be fulltext, others may be only citations.
After finding a "good" article, use the "Find Article at Allegheny" link to locate the article in our journal collection.
If Allegheny does not have access to the journal, use the Illiad link to order a copy using interlibrary loan.

Take a moment to think about your topic and reduce it to the required elements.  
      Example:  Parkinson's Disease and treatment*

Here is the advanced search screen:

Here is a sample results screen: