Choosing A Topic

My research question I'm going to begin with is do concussions suffered by high school athletes have an effect on their academic success and how? Asides from this, I wanted to research brain trauma in NFL players after their career but I couldn't find enough peer reviewed articles that provided adequate information. I stuck with my topic question because I was able to find several peer reviewed articles regarding academic disfunction in high school athletes. I was interested in writing about this topic because as a high school athlete, I sometimes wondered what kind of effect getting a concussion has on your brain. I've only ever suffered one concussion, however i didn't recall any academic disfunction following the injury, but I would like to learn more about that specific public health issue. Some key words that I have found that kind of guided my research thus far were brain trauma, adolescent, concussion, and athlete. One of the articles I found regarding my topic was "Academic Dysfunction After a Concussion Among US High School and College Students" from the American Journal of Public Health. This article talks about talks about how concussions affect the teenage learning processes and how the concussions affect them "at 1 week and 1 month after injury" (Wasserman, Bazarian, Mapstone, Block, Wijngaarden 2016). I really look forward to researching this topic because it effects me, my family, and my friends if one so happens to suffer a concussion in their life.

I chose this picture to post because it kinda portrays a good image of how stressful this research process can be. I don/t know about you guys, but trying to get this audio file on here was already kind of stressful.