Late-onset schizophrenia in child survivors of the holocaust.

CHAPTER 2 Diurnal Cortisol Patterns and Stress Reactivity in Child Holocaust Survivors

Late-life implications of early traumatic stress for the adreno-cortical system were examined in a sample of 133 child survivors of the Holocaust,who were subjected to Nazi persecution during infancy. Method: In a non-convenience sample of child survivors, born between 1935-1944, basal circadian cortisol release and cortisol reactivity to a stressor were assessed. Results: Age, parental loss du...

Sense of coherence moderates late effects of early childhood Holocaust exposure.

This study evaluated child Holocaust survivors with an emphasis on potential protective factors facilitating participants' adaptation to post-Holocaust life. We examined Antonovsky's (1979, 1987) salutogenic paradigm, testing the mediating and moderating effect of participants' sense of coherence (SOC) on the association between early childhood deprivation due to Holocaust persecution and postt...

Stress Reactivity and Trauma: Deviant in Holocaust Survivors, but not in their Daughters

The long-term effects of the Holocaust trauma in survivors and their offspring might have affected their neurobiological system. Here we explore the influence of childhood exposure to the traumatic stress, at least characterized by loss of both parents during the Holocaust, on cortisol reactivity of the survivors and their daughters more than 60 years later. Holocaust survivors and comparison p...

Quality of care after early childhood trauma and well-being in later life: child Holocaust survivors reaching old age.

The link between deprivation and trauma during earliest childhood and psychosocial functioning and health in later life was investigated in a group of child Holocaust survivors. In a nonconvenience sample 203 survivors, born between 1935 and 1944, completed questionnaires on Holocaust survival experience and several inventories on current health, depression, posttraumatic stress, loneliness, an...

The consequences of the Holocaust on child survivors and children of survivors.