MECHANISM OF INTERCOMMUNICATION
Providing information and receiving feedback is the backbone of this discourse community.
PEER REVIEWED RESEARCH ARTICLES
Single Low Dose of Cocaine–Structural Brain Injury Without Metabolic and Behavioral Changes
A peer review research article focusing on the neurotoxicity of cocaine within rodents and humans. The article goes into detail with regards to the often neglected recreational use of the drug and demonstrates that the popular belief that a low dose of cocaine causes no damage to brain is incorrect.
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TRPM3 Channels Play Roles in Heat Hypersensitivity and Spontaneous Pain After Nerve Injury
Focuses on understanding the role of TRPM3 in heat hyperalgesia and pain. Demonstrates that TRPM3 plays an important role after a nerve injury with regards to hyper sensitivity and spontaneous pain.
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PROFESSIONAL ARTICLES
Abnormal Hyperactivation in the Brain May Be an Early Sign of Alzheimer’s
Discusses a biomarker for Alzheimer's disease. Marks specific brain areas and their activation in unusual ways before any diagnoses and connects it to the disease.
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Neuroscientists Identify Brain Circuit that Encodes Timing of Events
Elaborates the use of hippocampus in maintaining the timeline in a lifetime worth of memories. Discusses about how the timing of the memory is encoded separately demonstrating that the encoding sequence and areas differs for memories with regards to time, place, and space.
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BLOGS
Moving the Body to Advance Cognition and Protect Against Dementia
Focuses on the study of cognitive effects with the use of EEG. Discusses what Wendy Suzuki will be presenting in the upcoming month of March with regards to how the movement of the periphery body can cause changes in the brain.
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Screens in schools and their effects on the Brain
Elaborates the difference in the way our brain functions when we work on a paper rather than a visual screen. Discusses the benefits and drawbacks of screens specifically targeting the use of smartphones in schools and the sound of keyboard engaging the brain.
GENRE ANALYSIS OF THE PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL "SINGLE LOW DOSE OF COCAINE–STRUCTURAL BRAIN INJURY WITHOUT METABOLIC AND BEHAVIORAL CHANGES"
This peer-reviewed article was published in the open-access journal frontiers in Neuroscience. The journal is one of the leading in the field itself establishes the legitimacy of the article. This article has a total of 14 different authors relating to different universities and was reviewed by another 3 identities, and then was finally edited by Yixiao Luo. The article also has 55 different entries in the reference section speaking volumes for the credibility of the article and allows the article to establish its authority.
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The article begins with the abstract where the authors discussed the use of cocaine in recreational form and then shifts to the introduction where the authors summarize the entire study in a concise fashion providing the results as well as all the other studied data. The article then delves deeper into the whole study and further elaborates on what was entailed in the introduction.
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The article is intended for other neuroscientists specifically with the general audience being others relating to the field of medicine as it uses several scans of the brain, histological slides, and various other imaging techniques to show the different parts of the brain and the effects of the induced drug within these parts which cannot be understood without a deep understanding of the topic. These scans and imaging techniques also exhibit the way the parts of the brain look before and after the induction of the drug and the article also includes charts comparing the experiment group and controlled within the article in order to summarize the results. The use of logos spans the whole article causing there to be no uncertainty in the study.
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The conventions of this peer-reviewed article support the goals and exhibit the values of this discourse community by it providing information about a new study and by it providing logical evidence to support the claims it makes, which is the hallmark of this discourse community. All in all, the article uses both ethos and logos to establish its legitimacy and improves the understanding of the effects cocaine in rodents.
GENRE ANALYSIS OF THE BLOG ENTRY "SCREENS IN SCHOOLS AND THEIR EFFECTS ON THE BRAIN"
While the members of this discourse community usually focus on peer-reviewed articles in order to gain an understanding of new and old studies, it doesn't change the goals of this discourse community, where one of them is providing the information on these studies to the general public in a way they understand. This blog entry provides an understanding of the use of screens in school and their consequences on the brain while doing just that. The entry was found on the NeuRA blog and while the author of the entry is Gabrielle Hunter, the information provided is by an esteemed neuroscientist Dr. Steve Kassem who specializes in brain mapping.
The audience of this entry is quite general with it targeting the student body the most specifically. Ethos is used overwhelmingly within the whole entry, specifically in the beginning where "Dr. Steve Kassem, a neuroscientist specializing in brain mapping at NeuRA, explains how writing on paper and typing on an electronic device impacts our brains in different ways." Whereas studies are mentioned but without any being referred to specifically thus their validity being unaccounted for.
After the introduction of Dr. Steve Kassem, it goes straight to tackling the question of the effects of screens on the brain where the blogger asks the questions and Dr. Steve answers. The questions are split up based on screens versus paper, screens and their impact in school and screens distracting the students. The entry is in the first person where Dr. Steve uses the facts that he knows about the questions to answer them.
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All in all, this blog entry exhibits the values of the discourse community by providing information on a general level to the masses using a highly learned professional. While the entry doesn't have any complex scans or images which are a norm for this discourse community, it establishes credibility through the person who is being questioned being a learned and esteemed professional within the community. This entry allows for the understanding of the consequences of screens on the human brain and the professional answering the questions helps the community reach its goals of providing information on a general level in a very keen manner.