The history of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

The contemporary concept of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) as defined in the DSM-IV-TR (American Psychiatric Association 2000) is relatively new. Excessive hyperactive, inattentive, and impulsive children have been described in the literature since the nineteenth century. Some of the early depictions and etiological theories of hyperactivity were similar to current descriptions of ADHD. Detailed studies of the behavior of hyperactive children and increasing knowledge of brain function have changed the concepts of the fundamental behavioral and neuropathological deficits underlying the disorder. This article presents an overview of the conceptual history of modern-day ADHD

From Darkest Peru to Contemporary Politics: The Timelessness of Paddington’s Search for a Home

Dieser Beitrag liest den Familienfilm Paddington (2014) als ein kulturelles Produkt, das Spuren der Geschichte und Politik seines Quellentextes in sich trägt und unterschiedliche Zeitebenen verbindet, die auf die Zeitlosigkeit von Paddingtons Suche nach einem Zuhause und damit auf das Phänomen von Exil und Migration im Allgemeinen hinweist. Paddington bewegt sich durch ein London, das durch widersprüchliche Zeitbezüge gekennzeichnet ist, als “Jederbär”, der nach einem neuen Zuhause sucht, während die Familie Brown das zeit-lose Bedürfnis nach Anstand und Mitgefühl verkörpert. This contribution suggests reading the family film Paddington (2014) as a cultural product that contains traces of its source text’s contemporary history and politics and combines a variety of temporal levels to point towards the timelessness of Paddington’s search for a home and, in turn, of the phenomenon of migration and exile in general. In a London that is characterised by contradictory temporal references, Paddington emerges as an “every-bear” who is looking for a home, while the Browns represent the timeless need for decency and compassion.&nbsp

Sands-O’Connor, Karen (2017): Children’s Publishing and Black Britain, 1965-2015.

Sands-O’Connor, Karen (2017): Children’s Publishing and Black Britain, 1965-2015. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan (Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature). 978-1-137-57903-4, 197 pp

Community shifts in a well-operating agricultural biogas plant: how process variations are handled by the microbiome

Theuerl S, Kohrs F, Benndorf D, et al. Community shifts in a well-operating agricultural biogas plant: how process variations are handled by the microbiome. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 2015;99(18):7791-7803