Sentences with phrase «decades of their adulthood»

During three decades of adulthood he produced some of the most perceptive and beautifully expressed observations about the human condition that the world has ever known.

Some family members may have had minimal or no communications over the decades of their adulthood.

These three first - generation Persian - American sisters have already built a thriving real estate company from scratch in their first decade of adulthood.

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Former Harvard president Larry Summers called the program «the single most misdirected philanthropy in this decade,» according to TechCrunch, while Slate Group chairman Jacob Weisberg wrote in Newsweek, «Thiel fellows will have the opportunity to emulate their sponsor by halting their intellectual development around the onset of adulthood, maintaining a narrow - minded focus on getting rich as young as possible and thereby avoid the siren lure of helping others or pursuing knowledge for its own sake.»

How Children Succeed is Paul Tough's insightful & highly readable compilation of decades of research on what it is that enables some children to thrive into adulthood while...

It ran for three decades and assessed 131 babies from the age of three months until adulthood.

How Children Succeed is Paul Tough's insightful & highly readable compilation of decades of research on what it is that enables some children to thrive into adulthood while others fall behind (both in economically advantaged and disadvantaged circumstances).

Decades - long studies show that early education can produce a range of effects lasting well into adulthood, but the quality and context of the programs are critical.

«Many of the diseases associated with childhood abuse typically emerge in middle and later stages of adulthood — decades after the abuse actually occurred,» said Chiang, a postdoctoral fellow with Northwestern's Foundations of Health Research Center and its Institute for Policy Research.

The study, published today in JAMA Psychiatry, is the first to track IQ scores and cognitive abilities throughout the entire first two decades of life among individuals who develop psychotic disorders in adulthood.

For decades, the development of COPD has been ascribed to accelerated decline of lung function from a normal level achieved in young adulthood.

«An individual's telomere length at birth is known to influence their risk for disease decades later during adulthood,» says Tang, professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the Mailman School.

While the life expectancy for children with cystic fibrosis has increased over the past few decades, many lives are still shortened in young adulthood by the ravages of lung infections.

By adulthood, the idea of cracking open a coloring book seems almost laughable... except that researchers have been studying the benefits of this classic childhood activity for adults for over a decade.

One recent review from Baylor University examining decades of data, suggests that getting good sleep in middle age and young adulthood protects against age - related cognitive decline during senior years.

Before we hit a state of blood sugar pathology (diabetes, metabolic syndrome, or latent autoimmune diabetes of adulthood for example), we most likely spend some time, perhaps decades, in a state of functional blood sugar imbalance.

«A prominent and well - characterized feature of AD is progressive, region - specific declines in the cerebral metabolic rate of glucose (CMRglc)-LSB-...] Carriers of a common Alzheimer's susceptibility gene [APOE Ɛ4] have functional brain abnormalities in young adulthood, several decades before possible onset of dementia.

The pumping force of the heart decreases by 8 % per decade in adulthood; lung capacity decreases, muscles lose strength, reaction time slows, and bones lose their mineral content.

Starting as just a child, the film spans two decades of Marjane's life as she struggles to cope with all of the difficulties that come with adolescence, the teenage years and early adulthood; coupled with the strife of her nation.

This compelling knowledge base underscores three significant, unmet needs: (1) valid and reliable biological and bio-behavioral measures (or «biomarkers») of «toxic stress» to identify children who are at higher risk of chronic disease in adulthood; (2) more effective intervention strategies to prevent, reduce, or mitigate the long - term health consequences of significant adversity in early childhood; and (3) biomarkers that are sensitive to change and can thus be used to assess the short - term and medium - term effects of intervention strategies whose ultimate impacts on physical and mental health may not be apparent until decades later.

Homeownership has been a cornerstone of the American Dream for decades and is something many men look forward to as a sort of rite - of - passage into adulthood.

For the better part of a decade, studies have shown that many adolescents benefit from gaming, but few have investigated any positive effects that carried on into later adulthood.

Despite decades of research describing the harmful effects of family poverty on children's emotional and behavioral development, eg,12 - 17 experimental or quasi-experimental manipulations of family income that could go beyond description are rare18 and tend to examine the effect of such manipulations on physical health or academic attainment, rather than emotional or behavioral functioning.19, 20 Other analyses of the Great Smoky Mountains data set have focused on educational and criminal outcomes.21 The few studies looking at emotional or behavioral outcomes tend to have a short time frame.22, 23 Some studies of school - based interventions have followed up with children through to adulthood, 24,25 but we have found none that have looked at the long - term effects of family income supplementation on adult psychological functioning.

Adolescence is an important decade in a child's development, marking the period of transition from childhood to adulthood.7 Adolescents are a particularly vulnerable group, experiencing a third of all new HIV infections worldwide, 8 high levels of violence, lower school attendance and enrolment than primary schoolchildren, early marriage and higher levels9 of sexual abuse victimisation.10 Furthermore, adolescence is a time where the intergenerational transmission of poverty, violence victimisation and perpetration, gender inequalities and educational disadvantage manifest themselves.9

Discussion Over the past several decades, there has been much documentation of the detrimental consequences of ACEs in later adulthood with regard to mental health and physical health outcomes (Felitti et al., 1998).

Constraining the covariance between credit scores and heart age to its initial level, absent adjustment for childhood factors, resulted in significantly poorer fit -LCB-[Δχ2 (1), n = 817] = 3.97, P = 0.046 -RCB-, indicating that a significant portion of credit - score - to - heart - age covariance in adulthood was accounted for by the characteristic behaviors, skills, and attitudes study members developed in their first decade of life.

In recent decades, many studies have examined the negative impact of parental divorce on children into adulthood.

Parenting interventions that are delivered during this developmental period are necessary in order to capture the groups of youth and families (i) currently experiencing problems, but who did not receive an intervention during early childhood; (ii) those who received an intervention in early childhood, but who continue to experience problems and (iii) those who are not currently experiencing problems, but are at risk for developing problems later in adulthood.7 In Steinberg's 2001 presidential address to the Society for Research on Adolescence, a concluding remark was made for the need to develop a systematic, large - scale, multifaceted and ongoing public health campaign for parenting programmes for parents of adolescents.8 Despite the wealth of knowledge that has been generated over the past decade on the importance of parents in adolescent development, a substantial research gap still exists in the parenting literature in regards to interventions that support parents of adolescents.

Dr. Cohn is a psychologist and former special education teacher and Professor of Special Education, with decades of experience specializing in developmental and emotional disorders of childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood, and learning and behavior problems throughout the life span.