Two Viennese Families

Berg ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 11-54
Author(s):  
Simms Bryan
Keyword(s):  
Early Life ◽  
Poor Health ◽  
Paul Kammerer ◽  
Professional Aspirations ◽  
Self Instruction ◽  
Love Triangle

In the book’s first chapter major events in Berg’s early life (1885–1911) in Vienna are traced: his family, his artistic impulses and influences, his self-instruction in music and art, his schooling, and his early professional aspirations. Berg’s lifelong struggle with poor health is assessed. The Nahowski family, Berg’s future in-laws, is studied, including Anna Nahowski’s affair with Emperor Franz Joseph and the possibility that Helene Berg was the Emperor’s natural daughter. The love triangle of Berg, Helene, and Paul Kammerer (a brilliant Viennese scientist and musician) is explored, and the chapter ends with Berg’s marriage to Helene in 1911.

Prenatal and early life origins of adolescence sleep problems: evidence from a birth cohort

2018 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaqoot Fatima ◽  
Alice Cairns ◽  
Isabelle Skinner ◽  
Suhail A.R. Doi ◽  
Abdullah Al Mamun
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Birth Cohort ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Sleep Problems ◽  
Error Variance ◽  
Poor Health ◽  
Lifestyle Choices ◽  
Close Observation ◽  
Potential Strategy ◽  
Sleep Talking

Abstract Purpose This study aims to identify the prenatal and early life predictors of adolescence sleep problems. Methods Sleep data (n = 5081) from the 14-year (13.92 ± 0.34 years) follow-up of a birth cohort were analyzed to explore the predictors of adolescence trouble sleeping, nightmares, snoring and sleep talking/walking. Data from the antenatal period till adolescence were explored for identifying predictors of adolescence sleep problems. Modified Poisson regression with a robust error variance was used to identify significant predictors. Results Our results suggest that about a quarter of adolescents in our study sample had sleep maintenance problems (nightmares: 27.88%, snoring: 23.20%, sleepwalking/talking 27.72%). The prevalence rate of sleep initiation problems was even higher (trouble sleeping: 40.61%). Our results suggest that antenatal and early-life factors, e.g. maternal smoking, anxiety, sleep problems in childhood, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms, and poor health are significant predictors of adolescence sleep problems. Conclusions This study demonstrates the predictive role of prenatal and early life risk factors in adolescence sleep problems. It seems that exposure to prenatal and early life risk factors increase the vulnerability for sleep problems later in life, which is further supported by poor health and lifestyle choices in adolescence. Therefore, close observation and mitigation of factors associated with early life risk factors could be a potential strategy for preventing sleep problems later in life.

The Transmission and Translation of the Collected Letters of John Calvin

1977 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 429-437 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Early Life ◽  
Poor Health ◽  
John Calvin

John Calvin was a prolific writer of letters. He carried on an increasingly large correspondence from his early life as an obscure student of law in Orleans (1528), to his last days of international renown as master theologian, patriarch and oracle of Protestantism (d. 1564). With the incessant demands on his time as preacher, professor, author, statesman, and pastor—not to mention his poor health and personal trials—one is amazed at the sheer amount of letters he wrote.

scholarly journals Does Early-Life Misfortune Increase the Likelihood of Psychotropic Medication Use in Later Life?

2017 ◽  
Vol 40 (6) ◽  
pp. 558-579 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia M. Morton ◽  
Kenneth F. Ferraro
Keyword(s):  
Psychotropic Medication ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Medication Use ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Psychotropic Medications ◽  
Poor Health ◽  
Additive Measure ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Childhood Socioeconomic Status

Life-course research has linked childhood experiences to adult mental illness, but most studies focus on anxiety or depressive symptoms, which may be transient. Therefore, this study investigates whether childhood misfortune is associated with taking psychotropic medication, a measure reflecting an underlying chronic mental disorder. Data are from three waves of a national survey of 2,999 U.S. men and women aged 25–74 years. Four domains of childhood misfortune (childhood socioeconomic status, family structure, child maltreatment, and poor health) are considered—specified as separate domains and a single additive measure—as key predictors of psychotropic medication use. Findings reveal an association between additive childhood misfortune and adult psychotropic medication use, net of adult risk factors. Psychotropic medication use is also more likely during the 20-year study for adults who experienced maltreatment and poor health during childhood. These results reveal the importance of early intervention to reduce consumption of psychotropic medications and associated costs.

scholarly journals Early life adversity increases the salience of later life stress: an investigation of interactive effects in the PSID

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Saxton ◽  
Laura Chyu
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Distress ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Chronic Conditions ◽  
Risk Model ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Large Body ◽  
Poor Health ◽  
Interactive Effects ◽  
Early Life Adversity ◽  
Fair Poor

AbstractA large body of evidence has shown that stress throughout life is associated with health trajectories, but the combination of adverse experiences at different stages of the life course is not yet well understood. This study examines the interactions between childhood adversity, adulthood adversity, and adult physical and mental health. Using data from The Childhood Retrospective Circumstances Study (CRCS) supplement to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), we created indices of early life adversity (EAI) and adult adversity (AAI). We used logistic regression to examine the effects of EAI and AAI, adjusting for age, sex, race/ethnicity, health behaviors, and childhood health as covariates in all models. We repeated this analysis for the outcomes of fair/poor health, two or more chronic conditions, and psychological distress in adulthood. For all the three outcomes, our findings suggest increasing salience of adult adversity among those who experienced higher levels of early adversity. Individuals with high EAI and high AAI exhibited the highest odds of fair/poor health (OR = 5.71), chronic conditions (OR = 3.06), and psychological distress (OR = 13.08) compared to those with low EAI and low AAI. These findings are consistent with the accumulation of risk or dual risk model of stress and health. Adversity in childhood amplifies the health risks associated with stress in adulthood for multiple health outcomes.

The Adventures of William Godwin

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bart Schultz
Keyword(s):  
Early Life ◽  
Mary Wollstonecraft ◽  
Poor Health ◽  
William Godwin ◽  
Political Justice

This chapter examines William Godwin's role in the development of philosophical utilitarianism. It first provides a background on Godwin's early life before discussing his relationships, first with Mary Wollstonecraft whom he married and then with Mary Jane Clairmont, his second wife. It then considers some of Godwin's works, including An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness; The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners and Literature in a Series of Essays; The Lives of the Necromancers; and Things as They Are, or the Adventures of Caleb Williams. The chapter also describes Godwin's poor health in his later years. Godwin died in 1836 at the age of 80.

Evaluation of self-instruction mini-course

1973 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 40-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
RA Kopczyk ◽  
JA Lenox ◽  
EB Kenney ◽  
A Kaplan ◽  
D Trinler
Keyword(s):  
Self Instruction

Health Communication: Implications for Diverse Populations

2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-19
Author(s):  
Amy Hasselkus
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Communication ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Linguistically Diverse ◽  
Good Health ◽  
The United States ◽  
Poor Health ◽  
Health Care Decisions ◽  
Diverse Backgrounds ◽  
Health Related

The need for improved communication about health-related topics is evident in statistics about the health literacy of adults living in the United States. The negative impact of poor health communication is huge, resulting in poor health outcomes, health disparities, and high health care costs. The importance of good health communication is relevant to all patient populations, including those from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. Efforts are underway at all levels, from individual professionals to the federal government, to improve the information patients receive so that they can make appropriate health care decisions. This article describes these efforts and discusses how speech-language pathologists and audiologists may be impacted.

Chemically Contaminated Eel Fed to Pregnant and Lactating Mouse Dams Causes Hyperactivity in Their Offspring

2016 ◽  
Vol 86 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 36-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Imen Dridi ◽  
Nidhal Soualeh ◽  
Torsten Bohn ◽  
Rachid Soulimani ◽  
Jaouad Bouayed
Keyword(s):  
Open Field ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Home Cage ◽  
Anguilla Anguilla ◽  
Acetylcholinesterase Activity ◽  
Female Offspring ◽  
Significant Inhibition ◽  
Standard Diet ◽  
Early Life Exposure ◽  
Cage Test

Abstract.This study examined whether perinatal exposure to polluted eels (Anguilla anguilla L.) induces changes in the locomotor activity of offspring mice across lifespan (post-natal days (PNDs) 47 – 329), using the open field and the home cage activity tests. Dams were exposed during gestation and lactation, through diets enriched in eels naturally contaminated with pollutants including PCBs. Analysis of the eel muscle focused on the six non-dioxin-like (NDL) indicator PCBs (Σ6 NDL-PCBs: 28, 52, 101, 138, 153 and 180). Four groups of dams (n = 10 per group) received either a standard diet without eels or eels (0.8 mg/kg/day) containing 85, 216, or 400 ng/kg/day of ϵ6 NDL-PCBs. The open field test showed that early-life exposure to polluted eels increased locomotion in female offspring of exposed dams but not in males, compared to controls. This hyperlocomotion appeared later in life, at PNDs 195 and 329 (up to 32 % increase, p < 0.05). In addition, overactivity was observed in the home cage test at PND 305: exposed offspring females showed a faster overall locomotion speed (3.6 – 4.2 cm/s) than controls (2.9 cm/s, p <0.05); again, males remained unaffected. Covered distances in the home cage test were only elevated significantly in offspring females exposed to highest PCB concentrations (3411 ± 590 cm vs. 1377 ± 114 cm, p < 0.001). These results suggest that early-life exposure to polluted eels containing dietary contaminants including PCBs caused late, persistent and gender-dependent neurobehavioral hyperactive effects in offspring mice. Furthermore, female hyperactivity was associated with a significant inhibition of acetylcholinesterase activity in the hippocampus and the prefrontal cortex.

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