Is sub-nutrition necessary for a poor outcome following early institutional deprivation?

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 664-671

  Sonuga Barke, Edmund J S ^a,b   Beckett, Celia ^a   Kreppner, Jana ^b   Castle, Jenny ^a   Colvert, Emma ^a   Stevens, Suzanne ^a   Hawkins, Amanda ^a   Rutter, Michael ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOPTED CHILD; ADOPTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN GROWTH; BRAIN SIZE; CATCH UP GROWTH; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEINSTITUTIONALIZATION; FEMALE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONAL CARE; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MENTAL DISEASE; PERINATAL CARE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROMANIA; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

ADOPTION; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, INSTITUTIONALIZED; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INFANT; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MENTAL DISORDERS; PSYCHOSOCIAL DEPRIVATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK;

EID: 50149107597     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2008.03065.x     Document Type: Article

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