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Institutional Negligence Affects Kids’ Brain Structure

January 27, 2015 By Georgia Dawson Leave a Comment

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Institutional Negligence Affects Kids' Brain StructureNumerous studies have already uncovered that traumatic encounters can have enduring consequences for a youngster’s mental health. When it comes to orphaned or abandoned children the circumstances are even more delicate, as institutional negligence affects kids’ brain structure, as indicated by a long term study. The recent study takes a step further and suggests that institutional disregard can result in changes in the structure of white matter of a tyke’s brain, but early intervention can treat the harm. The study, drove by Johanna Bick, PhD, of Boston’s Children’s Hospital in Massachusetts, was distributed in JAMA Pediatrics and is dubbed as the ‘Bucharest Early Intervention Project’.

The research started about 15 years ago, in 2000. Specialists randomly picked 136 deserted children, aged 2, who had officially spent a large portion of their lives in institutional care. 50% of these children were given in foster care. At the time, the Eastern European country did not have a foster care framework set up. A project was developed particularly for the youngsters in this study. Furthermore, a group of  small children of comparative ages who had never been in a public care institution and were being raised by their natural parents were chosen for the study.

The kids were evaluated in terms of developmental issues when the study started. Follow-up reviews were undertaken when the kids were 30 months, 42 months, 54 months, 8 years, and 12 years.

Specialists realized that there were detectable structural contrasts in specific ranges of the white matter of the kids’ brains. Specifically, there were variations in the corpus callosum, which enables communication between the two halves of the brain, a key capacity for dialect processing. Different affected regions were parts of the limbic system, and in the tactile processing areas. These variations may be correlated with the risk of attention deficiency disorders and impeded decision making process. Youngsters brought up in institutional care had a typical IQ of 70. Romanian institutions designed for taking care of abandoned children had significantly more infants than caretakers.  Babies spent the greater part of the day restricted to their cribs, with minimal linguistic incitement or human contact.

On the positive side, the kids who were moved from the state institutions to foster care had white matter that was fundamentally the same to that of kids who were raised by their biological parents. This suggests that the harm done in the early phases of brain development can be reversed if action is taken quickly.

A couple of years ago, Romania has banned kids under three years old from being taken in institutional care. Infants are to be brought up in group homes and only be moved to institutions when they  turn the legal age.

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