Behavioural Genetics of Early Childhood: Fears, Restlessness, Motion Sickness and Enuresis

AbstractSeventy-nine pairs of same-sex twins were examined at the age of three years at a municipal clinic and their mothers were interviewed to assess the twins' current and past behaviours. The zygosity was determined after the interview by fingerprints and/or bloodtyping in the majority of cases. The following significant differences in concordance between monozygotic and dizygotic twins were found: 1) fear of strangers during observation at the clinic; 2) marked fear of strangers in the first year of life; 3) whether or not the child was startled by sudden noises during infancy; 4) whether or not the child was able to sleep alone at three years without a parent sitting nearby; 5) susceptibility to motion sickness; 6) nocturnal enuresis; 7) short attention span or restlessness during the test.

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Enough with the tables, we need ideas.

International Journal for Population Data Science ◽

10.23889/ijpds.v4i3.1188 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 4 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Antony Stevens

Keyword(s):

Early Childhood ◽

Health Outcomes ◽

Interpersonal Violence ◽

Contingency Table ◽

Population Studies ◽

First Year ◽

Central Brazil ◽

To Come ◽

First Year Of Life ◽

The Way

One of the consequences of owning a farm in Central Brazil is that I frequently meet people who do things and have life narratives that we are unlikely to come across in texts on sociology or epidemiology. In the nearby town they live in streets that have postal codes that would place all the residents in the same cell of a contingency table. But in each residence lives a family with a separate and unique story. I believe that it is worth asking whether it is really the perceived similarities that determine their health outcomes. Yes, perhaps when sanitation is involved, but there are other health outcomes that would not be centered on the postcode. I have spent the last two years helping to link notifications of interpersonal violence with birth and mortality records. The idea is to find some way to stop men harming their partners. If this can be achieved by changing the way the law reacts to the violence then these linkages may prove useful, especially when legal and penal records are included in the studies. But what if what needs to be changed is the way a boy is treated in his first year of life? It is unlikely that information collected at the time of the violence would be accurate about events in early childhood. How could record linkages tell us that we should be looking elsewhere? I have no idea. But I believe it to be the most important question in population studies today. Statisticians are always pleased to tell us that we have failed to prove something. We need a methodology that tells us where to look. Also it must be based on something with more possibilities than those currently offered by diluted Marxism.

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Antibiotic use in the first year of life and asthma in early childhood

Clinical & Experimental Allergy ◽

10.1111/j.1365-2222.2004.01994.x ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 34 (7) ◽

pp. 1011-1016 ◽

Cited By ~ 52

Author(s):

J.C. Celedon ◽

A. Fuhlbrigge ◽

S. Rifas-Shiman ◽

S.T. Weiss ◽

J.A. Finkelstein

Keyword(s):

Early Childhood ◽

Antibiotic Use ◽

First Year ◽

First Year Of Life

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A systematic review of risk factors during first year of life for early childhood caries

International Journal of Paediatric Dentistry ◽

10.1111/j.1365-263x.2012.01260.x ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 23 (4) ◽

pp. 235-250 ◽

Cited By ~ 91

Author(s):

Pamela Margaret Leong ◽

Mark Gregory Gussy ◽

Su-Yan L. Barrow ◽

Andrea de Silva-Sanigorski ◽

Elizabeth Waters

Keyword(s):

Risk Factors ◽

Systematic Review ◽

Early Childhood ◽

Early Childhood Caries ◽

First Year ◽

First Year Of Life ◽

Childhood Caries

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Relationship between lung function results in the first year of life and respiratory morbidity in early childhood in patients born prematurely

Pediatric Pulmonology ◽

10.1002/ppul.1950180505 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 18 (5) ◽

pp. 290-294 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

F. Giffin ◽

A. Greenough ◽

B. Yüksel

Keyword(s):

Early Childhood ◽

Lung Function ◽

Respiratory Morbidity ◽

First Year ◽

First Year Of Life

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Some Characteristics of Mothers of Severely Disturbed Children in a Therapeutic Nursery

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.1972.30.3.901 ◽

1972 ◽

Vol 30 (3) ◽

pp. 901-902 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Dorothy Gartner ◽

Harris S. Goldstein

Keyword(s):

Early Childhood ◽

Emotional Disturbance ◽

Perinatal Depression ◽

Emotional Disturbances ◽

First Year ◽

Marital Discord ◽

Serious Emotional Disturbances ◽

Therapeutic Nursery ◽

First Year Of Life ◽

High Degree

19 mothers of children with serious emotional disturbances of early childhood were interviewed and administered the MMPI and Picture Frustration Test. Interview data showed that a high percentage of mothers experienced perinatal depression (66%) and marital discord (78%). MMPI profiles indicated a high degree of psychopathology. The P-F test characterized these mothers as intropunitive. Maternal depression during an infant's first year of life may result in affectional deprivation and lead to serious emotional disturbance in early childhood.

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