Thursday, March 5, 2009

Final Focus; Further research

After going through all of my posts and compiling information I realized that I needed some sort of conclusion to the research because all the information is there but I don't seem to have anything tying it all together. I feel as though I've been focusing heavily on the negative with little positive. For my final stretch of research I would like to find some kind of research with a conclusion to it rather then "this is what we found". Funny that my sister mentioned she also thought I need to touch base with the pros. I think if I can find a couple articles showing that for as much harm it does there is good although not all of my articles convey that. After discussing I didn't really feel as though many of my questions were left unanswered nor where there any new ones. Other then if are pharmaceutical companies are doing in with this drug, what other medicines?

For my oral presentation I want to discuss on how my topic started out as SSRI in general and through out my research it seems adolescents was something that showed up more and more which shifted my focus and enabled me to find out a lot more. I plan on making a poster with pictures of the most common SSRI the most common dosage. I would also like to have a story for each medicine, find articles of people who have used them, one that is positive and one that was negative then a percentage of people who find it useful and ones who don't. A picture of your brain before and after several months of using SSRI with a list of symptoms that may occur. Chart of how many more prescriptions have been written for this category of drug over the past 10 years. All aspects of this presentation I have already acquired. The information was easier to find than I though it would be.