A report by researchers at Boston Children's Hospital has revealed that young children experiencing deprivation and neglect in institutional settings have impaired memory and executive functioning at age 8 and 16 compared with peers placed early in quality foster homes, News Medical Life Sciences has reported.
According to the article, the study of the latest findings from the randomized controlled trial, the Bucharest Early Intervention Project (BEIP), shows that the effects of neglect and deprivation during early childhood continue to the second decade of life.
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