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

by Charles Alexander Nelson, Charles H. Zeanah Jr., Nathan A. Fox

Book Overview

The implications of early experience for children's brain development, behavior, and psychological functioning have long absorbed caregivers, researchers, and clinicians. The 1989 fall of Romania's Ceausescu regime left approximately 170,000 children in 700 overcrowded, impoverished institutions across Romania, and prompted the most comprehensive study to date on the effects of institutionalization on children's wellbeing. Romania's Abandoned...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674724704
• ISBN13: 9780674724709
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.7" x 8.6"