Dr. Nathan Fox will present ground-breaking research examining the effects of abandonment and social deprivation on the developing child. If you are interested in child development, education, behavior, psychology, or neuroscience, you will benefit greatly from attending. Dr. Fox's team performed a unique experiment--taking a group of abandoned children out of orphanages in Bucharest and placing them in foster care created for the purpose of the research. His work compares the outcomes of the children who remained in orphanages to those who were placed in foster care. Dr. Fox will discuss the short- and long-term outcomes of this intervention, on the behavior, mental health, and brain development of these children.
