After you've organized your search terms, consider what syntax you will need to use to group synonyms and combine concepts.
For the research question:
Does Medical Marijuana help with seizures in children who have epilepsy?
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Population/Problem
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Intervention
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Control
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Outcome
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Children with epilepsy
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Medical Marijuana
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Other medications?
Doing nothing?
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Epileptic seizures
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Concepts
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Children OR
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Marijuana OR
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Epilepsy OR
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Synonyms
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Juveniles OR
Minors
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Cannabis OR
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Seizures OR
Convulsions OR
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Subject Headings
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AND
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“Medical Marijuana”[Mesh]
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AND
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Epilepsy[Mesh] OR
Seizures[Mesh]
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A sample PubMed search combining keywords and MeSH terms from the table above: (children OR juveniles OR minors) AND (marijuana OR cannabis OR "Medical Marijuana"[Mesh]) AND (epilepsy OR seizures OR convulsions OR "Epilepsy"[Mesh] OR "Seizures"[Mesh])
