| Romania''s Abandoned Children Subjects: Abandoned children -- Romania -- Psychology; Abandoned children -- Deinstitutionalization -- Romania; Deprivation (Psychology); 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 Children , the authoritative account of this landmark study, documents the devastating toll paid by children who are deprived of responsive care, social interaction, stimulation, and psychological comfort. Nelson Charles A. : Charles A. Nelson is Professor of Pediatrics and Neuroscience at Harvard Medical School.Fox Nathan A. : Nathan A. Fox is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology at the University of Maryland.Zeanah Charles H. : Charles H. Zeanah is Sellars Polchow Professor of Psychiatry at Tulane University. |