Hi, I'm given a research project to do in my chemistry class. I need to get the idea off the newspaper or science article off a magazine. Currently I've been reading Scientific American about the possible causes of suicide and why people decide to kill themselves year after year.
In the article it states about that some brains of people that died from suicide suggest they had low serotonin levels in the brain to depression, aggresive behavior and a tendency toward impulsiveness, but all this is confusing towards suicide, because numbers of studies have found reductions in serotonin in the brains of suicides, whereas others have not. Some have observed a lack of serotonin in one part of the brain but not elsewhere, so its confusing if suicde dealts with the serotonin system in the brain.
This interested alot in me and I really liked reading the article. I think I can design an experiment dealing with the serotonin system and suicide.
I need an experiment on this, any suggestions? I'm not going to do the actual experiment, but research it and construct a hypothesis and a two possible outcomes of the experiment.
And the materials if done has to be from a normal chemistry class lab.
Any ideas for the experiment and thesis statement title for the research project?