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Romania’s Abandoned Children

Deprivation, Brain Development, and the Struggle for Recovery

Charles A. Nelson

Nathan A. Fox

Charles H. Zeanah

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$41.00 • £35.95 • €37.95

ISBN 9780674724709

Publication Date: 01/06/2014

416 pages

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches

25 halftones, 10 tables

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Charles A. Nelson is Professor of Pediatrics and Neuroscience at Harvard Medical School.

Nathan A. Fox is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology at the University of Maryland.

Charles H. Zeanah is Sellars Polchow Professor of Psychiatry at Tulane University.

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Visit the website for the Bucharest Early Intervention Project
Listen to Dr. Charles Nelson explain how children’s early experiences shape the developing brain on the WBUR news series “Common Health” and ABC Radio National’s All in the Mind
In Scientific American, read an article by Nelson, Fox, and Zeanah on the design and findings of the Bucharest Early Intervention Project (subscription or site license required)

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