Skip to content
MacBrain
Menu
  • Home
  • About
  • Activ
  • Disclaimer
  • People
  • Privacy Policy
  • RESOURCES
  • Contact Us
Menu

Month: October 2019

Study Case: Effects of Brain-Behavioral Development

Posted on October 19, 2019September 5, 2021 by MacBrain research team

Bucharest Early Intervention Project – This project examines the effects of intervention (in this case, foster care) on children who have been raised in orphanages.

EFFECTS OF EARLY EXPERIENCE ON BRAIN-BEHAVIORAL DEVELOPMENT

Several of our research projects examine the effects of early experiences on brain and behavioral development. Our most recent project in this vein is the Bucharest Early Intervention Project.

Many children raised in orphanages in Romania are at dramatically increased risk for a number of social and behavioral abnormalities such as disturbances of attachment, inattention/hyperactivity, externalizing behavior problems, and a syndrome that mimics autism.

This study compares children ranging in age from 3 to 30 months who are being raised in several orphanages in Bucharest, Romania, with one group of children of the same age removed from orphanages and placed into foster care, and another group of children of the same age who were raised in their home …

Read more

Brain-Behavioral Development

Posted on October 13, 2019September 5, 2021 by MacBrain research team

An enormous range of activities could fall under this heading. In this area we seek to focus on the role of experience in shaping physiology; physiology which in turn drives development and leads to behavioral outcomes. Our initial efforts focus on how early maternal (and possibly paternal) contact influences brain development and the consequent emotional development.

The importance of early socio-emotional relationships in facilitating healthy brain-behavioral development has recently been brought to our attention by what happens when otherwise normal, healthy infants are deprived of such relationships. For example, although children reared in institutionalized orphanages are deprived of a range of experiences (e.g., linguistic input; the opportunity to move and explore the environment), what most stands out in terms of their rearing is the profound deprivation from human contact; these children were not talked to, picked up, hugged, kissed, played with, and so forth. Not all such children suffer profound …

Read more

Recent Posts

  • 10 tips to calm your child’s back-to-school anxiety
  • Childhood Stroke
  • The Effects of Music and Television on Childhood Development
  • How to Draw With Your Right Brain
  • How to Keep the Brain Healthy and Functioning Well

Recent Comments

No comments to show.

Archives

  • May 2022
  • April 2022
  • March 2022
  • August 2021
  • May 2021
  • April 2021
  • March 2021
  • December 2020
  • August 2020
  • June 2020
  • April 2020
  • February 2020
  • October 2019
  • September 2019
  • July 2019
  • June 2019
  • April 2019
  • March 2019
  • October 2018

Categories

  • Articles
© 2022 MacBrain | Powered by Superbs Personal Blog theme