Paper on Endocrinology of Depression and Anxiety
3000-5000 word paper on endocrinology of anxiety depression and how it relates to endocrinology. Basically state what hormones and endo disorders affect depression and
anxiety etc( like cortisol, hypothryoidism), should use scentific sources such as papers and studies.
Specific Guidelines for preparing the paper
Submission: Papers must be submitted to through Blackboard. In the ‘Content’ section, there will be an assignment folder for submission of the paper.
File format: Submit your paper as a PDF file if you can. Otherwise, Microsoft Word, Pages, OpenOffice, GoogleDocs, TXT files are acceptable.
File name: your file using the following format: AdvisorLastName_StudentLastName_StudentFirstInitial.
Length: 3,000-5,000 words excluding references.
Plagiarism: All papers will automatically be run through the “SafeAssign” program to check for plagiarism. Be attentive to this issue and except for the citations
themselves, avoid any direct extraction of text from published sources.
Organization: Use the attached template for first page, but otherwise the paper can be organized according to your own preferences.
‣ A simple organization is probably the best, something like the following.
– An Introduction that presents the problem and makes it clear why it is important and
provides an outline of what will be covered in the paper,
– A Background section that provides the reader with the information necessary to understand what you are talking about.
– A Body section that describes the specific details of your topic and presents the key pieces of data from published studies.
– A Conclusion that ties the whole thing up into a neat simple message that a reader can remember and maybe a bit of speculation if appropriate.
Title page: Every paper must include a title page using the general format shown in the attached template. The summary/abstract should be a distillation of the
entire paper, providing a concise statement of the topic, its significance, the main points/findings, and the overall conclusion. This will be distributed to each
student before the symposia starts, to be used as a study guide for the exam questions that will be taken from each presentation.
Illustrations: Diagrams or drawings to explain key models or concepts, and data figures to illustrate key scientific results should be included. These can be
imported directly from the original sources or you can create them yourself. In either case they need to be properly cited.
Citations: Citations for key literature sources must be provided.
A good option for keeping track of citations and making a bibliography is Endnote. This program can be downloaded (free of charge) from the WSU computing
website (http:// clearinghouse.wayne.edu/currentsite/downloads.htm).
While general statements about key concepts in the field do not generally need a citation, any statement that describes a specific finding, experiment, study
or piece of data, should include the original reference.
• Example of a statement that does not need a citation: “Autoimmune destruction of the pancreas is the basis for type 1 diabetes”. Example of a statement that
does need a
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citation: “In caucasians, circulating insulin levels are positively correlated with the risk of developing cancer”.
• A good model for the in text citation and the bibliography formats can be seen in the Journal of Clinical Investigation. If you’re using the Endnote program, you can
set the program to automatically use this format (found in the ‘output styles’ menu option).
• In-text citations numbered in order of appearance. For example:
“Stimulation of insulin signaling also protects neurons from oligomer- induced impairment of long-term potentiation (LTP) (20) and accumulation of hyper-phosphorylated
tau (21).”
• The relevant section of the bibliography for these citations would be:
20. Townsend M, Mehta T, Selkoe DJ. Soluble Abeta inhibits specific signal transduction cascades common to the insulin receptor pathway. J Biol Chem. 2007;282
(46):33305–33312.
21. Escribano L, et al. Rosiglitazone rescues memory impairment in Alzheimer’s transgenic mice: mechanisms involving a reduced amyloid and tau pathology.
Neuropsychopharmacology. 2010;35(7):1593–1604.
