Romania's Abandoned Children: Deprivation, Brain Development, and the Struggle for Recovery

by Charles A Nelson, Nathan A. Fox, and Charles H. Zeanah

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Romania's Abandoned Children reveals the heartbreaking toll paid by children deprived of responsive care, stimulation, and human interaction. Compared with children in foster care, the institutionalized children in this rigorous twelve-year study showed severe impairment in IQ and brain development, along with social and emotional disorders.
  • ISBN13 9780674726079
  • Publish Date 14 May 2014 (first published 6 January 2014)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Harvard University Press