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Mental Illnesses
At this time, scientists do not have a complete understanding of what causes mental illnesses. If you think about the structural and organizational complexity of the brain together with the complexity of effects that mental illnesses have on thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, it is hardly surprising that figuring out the causes of mental illnesses is a daunting task. The fields of neuroscience, psychiatry, and psychology address different aspects of the relationship between the biology of the brain and individuals’ behaviors, thoughts, and feelings, and how their actions sometimes get out of control. Through this multidisciplinary research, scientists are trying to find the causes of mental illnesses. Once scientists can determine the causes of a mental illness, they can use that knowledge to develop new treatments or to find a cure.

Your mission here is to do two things.

1. Using the menu to the left of brief articles, organize the topics that interest you into a coherent outline. You will select the information's order and in an outline form, create a brochure on the topic of your choice. Your outline will have a catchy title that says what the brochure is about, a thesis sentence followed by between 3-5 topic sentences, which are each backed up by 3-5 facts in bullet format. You should stick to this website for this part. This website was created by cutting and pasting pieces of a National Institute of Health website that is visually hard to digest. You have information on several different disorders, and information on mental illness in general. Create a headline for your brochure and work to stay organized while presenting information. Note that you are not creating a brochure, just an outline for one. Work to stay organized while providing important information. You will not use all the information that is on this site, so be selective and organized in your choice of topics (The Roots of Mental Illnesses, What is Schizophrenia?, How to treat mental illnesses, Are you Depressed? etc)

Example: Title of your brochure Thesis sentence

Topic Sentence (that backs up thesis) -fact that backs up topic sentence -fact that backs up topic sentence -fact that backs up topic sentence -fact that backs up topic sentence

Topic Sentence (that backs up thesis) -fact that backs up topic sentence -fact that backs up topic sentence -fact that backs up topic sentence -fact that backs up topic sentence

Topic Sentence (that backs up thesis) -fact that backs up topic sentence -fact that backs up topic sentence -fact that backs up topic sentence -fact that backs up topic sentence

Repeat this as many times as you want...

Concluding sentence! your name!

2. Within this wiki (wiki means fast in Hawaiian) you will each create four (4) open-ended questions to post publicly in the "Discussion" tab of topic pages of your choice. Each question needs to be in a different section. Take your time and create thoughtful open-ended questions that are different from ones already posted there by your classmates. (You may not post "what she said.") After your brochure is complete, you will need to answer four (4) different unanswered or incompletely answered questions posed by other students. You may use any reputable (ie not wikipedia) resource to answer the questions asked by other students. You must put your first name and last initial after both your questions and answers in order to receive credit for doing this project.