Ideas

Ideas:

The mind of an addict – addiction

Look at it from both a purely medical and psychological view.

- Misconceptions about addiction

- Destruction of key regions of the brain

- How genetics play into it

- How the environment affects possibility of addiction

- Look into detail at different brain scans

- Effects of addiction on mental and physical health

- Prevention and solutions to addiction

- The different kinds of addiction

- What is actually in certain drugs that makes tangible drugs so addictive

- Look at why someone can’t just stop their addiction – withdrawal

- The victim mentality and it’s impact on addiction recovery

Overall:

Not specific enough – better to research a specific addiction such as medical drugs or cigarettes.

Could answer the question of how to ultimately help someone with addiction.

Maybe argue against the stigma about addicts.

There is a lot of research online.

Not currently sure about how I could make it original.

Medical advancement (has it gone too far?)

- The benefit of disease – evolution

- How reliance on technology is an issue when technologyis unavailable (vanishing clinical skills)

- History of medical development – human and animal testing

- Overpopulation? – maybe

- Impacts on the rest of the living world

Overall:

More original to evaluate

There is a lot of research

Not sure if it gives a good message

what happens when the brain doesn’t sleep

- Research into how it can eat itself

- The medical detailed explanation for sleep for the brain

- Insomnia

- Thing that can make it harder for the brain to sleep and their physical impacts on the brain.

- What is the optimal length of sleep and during what period of time --- talk about evolution of human and sleep cycle and the rising and setting of sun

- Long term and short term impacts of no sleep on behaviour --- moodiness, stress, inability to think (and medical side of it)

- The actual long term damage no sleep can have

- How it can cause death

- Why and how sleeping too much is bad

- The possible benefits of not sleeping a lot (adapting, ...)

Overall:

There is a lot of research.

Not sure if it is very original

Can easily conduct my own research

Can provide an answer to the question: what is the perfect duration of sleep

The brain of a psychopath/sociopath

- The brain paths of a non-psychopath compared to a psychopath

- The medical reason for a psychopath’s behaviour

- Misconceptions

- Behaviour of a psychopath

- Ways to regulate emotions

- Psychopathy is genetic but can it also be learned

- The subtypes of psychopaths

- The hereditary pathway to psychopathy

Other ideas:

• Cancer

• why we do self-destructive habits

• effects of the media on a child’s mind

• ethical concerns of ai diagnostic

• the impact of ai reliance on the mind —-

• addictive pleasure vs true happiness —-

• cannibalism in medicine and the reasoning of the brain —-

• do people with lifestyle diseases deserve NHS healthcare?

• designer babies?

• nazi medical experiments

• should all recreational drugs be legalised?

• how much does space travel affect an astronaut’s health? —-

• should the public be allowed to space(for immune system)

• what are ‘never events’ in medicine and how do they happen — ?