Brain white matter changes seen in children who experience neglect
Tuesday, January 27, 2015 - 12:00
in Psychology & Sociology
Experiencing neglect in childhood was associated with alterations in brain white matter in a study of abandoned children in Romania who experienced social, emotional, linguistic and cognitive impoverishment while living in institutions compared with children who were placed in high-quality foster care or those who had never been in institutional care, according to the results of a clinical trial.