The Lives of the most eminent English poets with critical observations on their works /

v.1. Cowley -- Denham -- Milton -- Butler -- Rochester -- Roscommon -- Otway -- Waller -- Pomfret -- Dorset -- Stepney -- J. Philips -- Walsh -- Dryden -- Smith -- Duke -- King -- Sprat -- Halifax -- Parnell -- Garth -- Rowe -- Addison -- Hughes -- Sheffield, Duke of Buckinghamshire -- Prior. v.2. Congreve -- Blackmore -- Fenton -- Gay -- Granville -- Yalden -- Tickell -- Hammond -- Somervile -- Savage -- Swift -- Broome -- Pope -- Pitt -- Thomson -- Watts -- A. Philips -- West -- Collins -- Dyer -- Shenstone -- Young -- Mallet -- Akenside -- Gray -- Lyttelton.

The lives of the most eminent English poets : with critical observations on their works /

Publisher's advertisements: [2] p. at end of v. 1.

The lives of the most eminent English poets : with critical observations on their works /

Printed by A. Fagan.

The dramatic works of Thomas Heywood : now first collected with illustrative notes and a memoir of the author ... -

With reproductions of original title-pages.

Simplest tasks have greatest dual task interference with balance in brain injured adults

Attention difficulties and poor balance are both common sequel following a brain injury. This study aimed to determine whether brain injured adults had greater difficulty than controls in performing a basic balance task while concurrently completing several different cognitive tasks varying in visuo-spatial attentional load and complexity. Twenty brain injured adults and 20 age-, sex- and education level-matched controls performed a balance-only task (step stance held for 30s), five cognitive-only tasks (simple and complex non-spatial, visuo-spatial, and a control articulation task), and both together (dual tasks). Brain injured adults showed a greater centre of pressure (COP) excursion and velocity in all conditions than controls. Brain injured adults also demonstrated greater interference with balance when concurrently performing two cognitive tasks than control subjects. These were the control articulation and the simple non-spatial task. It is likely that distractibility during these simple tasks contributed to an increase in COP motion and interference with postural stability in stance. Performing visuo-spatial tasks concurrently with the balance task did not result in any change in COP motion. Dual task interference in this group is thus unlikely to be due to structural interference. Similarly, as the more complex tasks did not uniformly result in increased interference, a reduction in attentional capacity in the brain injured population is unlikely to be the primary cause of dual task interference in this group. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Affective Instability, Childhood Trauma and Major Affective Disorders

Background and Aims Affective instability (AI), childhood trauma, and mental illness are linked, but evidence in affective disorders is limited, despite both AI and childhood trauma being associated with poorer outcomes. Aims were to compare AI levels in bipolar disorder I (BPI) and II (BPII), and major depressive disorder recurrent (MDDR), and to examine the association of AI and childhood trauma within each diagnostic group. Methods AI, measured using the Affective Lability Scale (ALS), was compared between people with DSM-IV BPI (n = 923), BPII (n = 363) and MDDR (n = 207) accounting for confounders and current mood. Regression modelling was used to examine the association between AI and childhood traumas in each diagnostic group. Results ALS scores in descending order were BPII, BPI, MDDR, and differences between groups were significant (p < 0.05). Within the BPI group any childhood abuse (p = 0.021), childhood physical abuse (p = 0.003) and the death of a close friend in childhood (p = 0.002) were significantly associated with higher ALS score but no association was found between childhood trauma and AI in BPII and MDDR. Conclusions AI is an important dimension in bipolar disorder independent of current mood state. There is a strong link between childhood traumatic events and AI levels in BPI and this may be one way in which exposure and disorder are linked. Clinical interventions targeting AI in people who have suffered significant childhood trauma could potentially change the clinical course of bipolar disorder.