[2] Adele Juda's father Karl was a graphic artist and director of a printing house; her mother was Maria.
She also worked until her death at the 'Zentralstelle für Familienbiologie und Sozialpsychiatrie' (Central office for Family Biology and Social Psychiatry) with Rudolf Cornides and Friedrich Stumpfl.
[3] Between 1928 and 1944 Juda studied the biographies of 19,000 German speaking people, including scientists, artists and at least 27 musicians.
[5][8] In a subgroup of 113 artists and writers she found a high occurrence of neurosis and suicide, specifically in poets.
[9] Her research was criticised, as her inclusion criteria were rather ambiguous, and the diagnostic methods used in her time were not great at distinguishing between different schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.