Talk:Nun Study

message: I'm new to Wikipedia but I thought I'd help out and start this page, as it was requested in the talk for David Snowdon. Hope this helps! --MTHarden 15:41, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Article creation

message: After making some pretty significant enhancements to this article, I made an account so I could add it to my watchlist. This was my first earnest effort at editing, so I tried to be thorough, yet succinct, with my contribution. Feedback'd be gladly appreciated. DrBurger (talk) 07:31, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Enhancements

message: Why does this article get categorised as a "psychology experiment" when this study was a longitudinal study, not an experiment? ACEOREVIVED (talk) 00:35, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think there is a separate category for psychological studies. Studies like Genetic Studies of Genius are also in this category. --MTHarden (talk) 21:34, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Categorisation is misleading

message: I added the tags for stub class of low importance. I would argue that this might actually qualify as mid importance because the Nun Study does get a fair amount of play in the media, many psychologists know of it, and there have been a number of publications from it. Thoughts? --MTHarden (talk) 13:28, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Qualtiy / Importance

message: Why the category pathological science? There is nothing here to hint that the study is bad science in any way. Anders Sandberg (talk) 00:06, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: It would appear that the category, 'pathological science', indicating as you say, 'bad science', has been appropriately removed, replaced by PATHOLOGY, which is reasonable, as there were autopsies of the brain performed in order to assess for plaques and tangles associated with Alzheimer's Disease, in relation to clinical (psychological) testing.  UnderEducatedGeezer (talk) 05:32, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Pathological?

message: It would really benefit from a definition of 'Linguistic density'
82.31.66.207 (talk) 06:34, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: It would also really benefit from inclusion of the fact that presence of plaques & tangles on autopsy (indicating Alzheimer's) were not always associated with clinical evaluation of its presence previous to death. "Neuronal hypertrophy may constitute an early cellular response to Alzheimer disease (AD) pathology or reflect compensatory mechanisms that prevent cognitive impairment despite substantial AD lesions;...". https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2734290/ UnderEducatedGeezer (talk) 05:39, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Linguistic density 

message: Hello! I came across this page while doing research for my adult development course. I clicked on the first external link that links to the "Official Nun Study homepage" page for the University of Minnesota. There is a lot of interesting information about the participants in the study and the study in general that may be useful to add to flesh out the article a little bit. 
Ntorgesen (talk) 21:33, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi! I also came across this page from my Adult Development class. The potential information I thought would be appropriate to add was to go deeper into the reasoning as to why he chose to study Nuns. Yes, it was because of their lifestyle, but specifically their decision to lead a chaste life and refrain from drug and alcohol abuse, factors that can skew results in a study. Wleahm (talk) 01:44, 4 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  - keep in mind WP:NOTESSAY and that any content presenting human behavior should be supported by a WP:RS source or - if applicable to health and disease - a WP:MEDRS review. Zefr (talk) 01:53, 4 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Potential Addition of Information 

message: I came across this article while doing an assignment for my Adult Development class and would love to help expand it in any way possible. I believe that there could potentially be more information from the sources placed here in order to give readers a all around clearer grasp of the subject manner and the details of the experiment. I would also love to see more sources form recent years as it seems that most of these sources are a bit dated and if this is a longitudinal study I would assume there are more recent statements we could taker into account. Admiralzackbar (talk) 03:56, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Addition of more information.  

message: Hello, I'm also from an adult development class and I'm interested in adding more to the history of this study. The study didn't start out with the intent to study Alzheimer's disease. Dr. Snowdon simply knew he wanted to use the nuns for a study because of their unique similarities. I'd like to talk more about it's history and early findings. Let me know if you have any suggestions. SydneyChristiansen19 (talk) 15:34, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Background to Study 

message: Hello! I am also reviewing this page as part of an adult development course. The article is getting there, and has a lot of potential! I would suggest maybe redistributing certain information into different sections of the article, or even adding new sections to the article for the sake of organization. It would make the article a little easier to read, and possibly offer some clarification to the topic and its timeline. Sydneyboyack (talk) 19:21, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible reorganization of information? 

message: Any idea how to find this missing citation in the last paragraph of the Origin and Procedure? I was thinking of deleting it but I wanted to see first if anyone knew where the info comes from.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Adultdev22 (talk • contribs) 04:47, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  missing citation, first section 

message: I have found this to be very interesting. I do believe that it would be helpful to know what some of the Nuns would have looked like to make you have a deeper connection to this articular. However, I am anxiously waiting to see what they have found with the nuns brains. I really hope that there are things that we can learn from this even more then we have already. I also wonder if the environment did have a big difference on the brain and if it helped the nuns to stay healthier in the long term prospective. I do believe that this study had a pretty well balanced in talking about the data that has been found and about some of the things that they found about Alzheimer's disease. I hope that they keep finding things that have an impact. Overall, I would love to see this updated with the final results of the study.  
JaredNeilson (talk) 00:45, 29 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Media for the Article 

message: I second the call for some photos to enhance the article. Have photos of the nuns been made publicly available? 
I also think that an emphasis has been made on postmortem discoveries. What kind of observations and advances are being made during the annual cognitive and psychical examinations?
Some of the correlational findings such as brain mass to the presence of Alzheimer's are interesting, but some more details could be useful. Quoting some figures of what kinds of brain masses correlate with the highest instances of Alzheimer's would be beneficial, as an example.
Brighamb (talk) 08:43, 23 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photos, contemporary discoveries, and expounding upon statistical findings could help develop this article