Research Topic: How does adolescent alcohol use affect the user's neurodevelopment and brain function?
Some questions that I will be answering throughout my research project are: ( the answers to these questions will be in the topic and evidence tab of this website)
1. What are some of the common terms that come in my research that need to be defined?
2. What are some guidelines in my research such as what is the definition of an adolescent and how much alcohol does an adolescent have to consume to be considered as someone with adolescent onset alcohol use disorder?
3. How does alcohol use affect the neurodevelopment ( the structural makeup) of the teenage brain?
4. How does alcohol use in teenagers affect the brain's many functions?
5. How do different alcohol laws in different countries influence teenager's decsions to consume alcohol?
6. What can be done to educate people especially American teenagers and their parents on the dangers of teenage alcohol use in a cost efficient manner?
The link to the picture on the left is : http://chesterfieldsafe.org/images/content/teen-brain.jpg
Hello, my name is Mia Steupert and I am a senior in highschool. One of the classes I am taking is called STEM ( science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) capstone/research seminar course and in that class we each get to create a research topic based off the topic of our choice. Since I want to be a psychiatrist in the research field of addiction medicine or a physician assistant in that field, I thought that I should focus my project on something that was interesting to me and that would help me in the future. So my research topic that I am proposing is " How does adolescent alcohol use affect their brains?" This website will be a place where I update you on my progress within my project, I also blog related to this project and the link for that blog is in my resources tab.
Some questions that I will be answering throughout my research project are: ( the answers to these questions will be in the topic and evidence tab of this website)
1. What are some of the common terms that come in my research that need to be defined?
2. What are some guidelines in my research such as what is the definition of an adolescent and how much alcohol does an adolescent have to consume to be considered as someone with adolescent onset alcohol use disorder?
3. How does alcohol use affect the neurodevelopment ( the structural makeup) of the teenage brain?
4. How does alcohol use in teenagers affect the brain's many functions?
5. How do different alcohol laws in different countries influence teenager's decsions to consume alcohol?
6. What can be done to educate people especially American teenagers and their parents on the dangers of teenage alcohol use in a cost efficient manner?
The link to the picture on the left is : http://chesterfieldsafe.org/images/content/teen-brain.jpg
Hello, my name is Mia Steupert and I am a senior in highschool. One of the classes I am taking is called STEM ( science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) capstone/research seminar course and in that class we each get to create a research topic based off the topic of our choice. Since I want to be a psychiatrist in the research field of addiction medicine or a physician assistant in that field, I thought that I should focus my project on something that was interesting to me and that would help me in the future. So my research topic that I am proposing is " How does adolescent alcohol use affect their brains?" This website will be a place where I update you on my progress within my project, I also blog related to this project and the link for that blog is in my resources tab.