Re: [xmca] The New Science of Babies and Brains, and How It Could Revolutionize the Fight Against Poverty

[Martin Packer <packer@duq.edu>]

Michael Rutter's team in the UK did something similar [attached]

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On Nov 16, 2011, at 10:05 PM, mike cole wrote:

> I am not sure this article has circulated. The extrapolation to children
> living in poverty in the US faces all of the issues we confronted in the
> 1960's, but now in the form of hot liquid.
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> mike
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> decade ago, a neuroscientist named Charles Nelson traveled to Bucharest to
> visit Romania’s infamous orphanages. There, he saw a child whose brain had
> swelled to the size of a basketball because of an untreated infection and a
> malnourished one-year-old no bigger than a newborn. But what has stayed
> with him ever since was the eerie quiet of the infant wards. “It would be
> dead silent, all of [the babies] sitting on their backs and staring at the
> ceiling,” says Nelson, who is now at Harvard. “Why cry when nobody is going
> to pay attention to you?”
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> Nelson had traveled to Romania to take part in a cutting-edge experiment.
> It was ten years after the fall of the Communist dictator Nicolae
> CeauÅŸescu, whose scheme for increasing the country’s population through
> bans on birth control and abortion had filled state-run institutions with
> children their parents couldn’t support. Images from the orphanages had
> prompted an outpouring of international aid and a rush from parents around
> the world to adopt the children. But ten years later, the new government
> remained convinced that the institutions were a good idea­and was still
> warehousing at least 60,000 kids, some of them born after the old regime’s
> fall, in facilities where many received almost no meaningful human
> interaction. With backing from the MacArthur Foundation, and help from a
> sympathetic Romanian official, Nelson and colleagues from Harvard, Tulane,
> and the University of Maryland prevailed upon the government to allow them
> to remove some of the children from the orphanages and place them with
> foster families. Then, the researchers would observe how they fared over
> time in comparison with the children still in the orphanages. They would
> also track a third set of children, who were with their original parents,
> as a control group. In the field of child development, this study­now known
> as the Bucharest Early Intervention Project­was nearly unprecedented.
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