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Romania's Abandoned Children: Deprivation, Brain Development, and the Struggle for Recovery
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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.
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“Briefly, both the structure and function of the brain are altered in currently and formerly institutionalized children, at least for those who were raised in these settings for significant periods of early childhood beyond 6 months of age.”
From Deviations from the expectable environment in early childhood and emerging psychopathology (2015) · cites this paper as Nelson et al, 2014
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Self-citationAccessing the Inaccessible: Redefining Play as a Spectrum
Zosh, J. M., Hirsh‐Pasek, K., Hopkins, E. J., Jensen, H., Liu, C. Y., Neale, D., Solis, S. L., & Whitebread, D. (2018) · Frontiers in Psychology · doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01124 · Cited by 565
Resilience in Development: Progress and Transformation
Masten, A. S., & Cicchetti, D. (2016) · Developmental Psychopathology · doi:10.1002/9781119125556.devpsy406 · Cited by 416
Neglect as a violation of species-expectant experience: neurodevelopmental consequences
McLaughlin, K. A., Sheridan, M. A., & Nelson, C. A. (2017) · Biological Psychiatry · doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2017.02.1096 · Cited by 295
Self-citationImmordino‐Yang, M. H., Darling‐Hammond, L., & Krone, C. R. (2019) · Educational Psychologist · doi:10.1080/00461520.2019.1633924 · Cited by 405
“…of the sorts broadly related to SEL have been shown to improve neural and cognitive functioning and emotional health, with long-term benefits for individuals (Diamond & Lee, 2011; Nelson, 2014; Neville et al., 2013; Oh et al., 2018; Pakulak et al., 2017; Semple, Lee, Dinelia, Ae, & Miller, 2010).”
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- Nelson, C. A.
- Corresponding author
- Nelson, Charles A.
- ORCID
- Nelson, Charles A.
- Venue
- Harvard University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Published
- 2014-01-06
- OpenAlex
- W3208026646
- Cited by
- 222
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 8 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 15 · 2023: 13 · 2022: 15 · 2021: 12 · 2020: 49 · 2019: 20 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 26 · 2016: 16 · 2015: 19 · 2014: 11
- FWCI
- 35.32
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Harvard University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Child Welfare and Adoption
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Keywords
- institutionalized children, Romanian orphanage, child neglect, responsive caregiving, brain development, foster care, child development
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