Charles A. Nelson, HMS professor of pediatrics at Children’s Hospital Boston, has studied the influence of childhood experience and early psycho-social deprivation on the brain in Romanian orphanages and
found that lack of stimulation stunts brain development in children.
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/11/9/hms-prof-brain/
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