Caregiving Quality and Adolescent Cortical Structure: A 16-Year Longitudinal Study of Institutionally Reared Youth.

ABSTRACT: Severe psychosocial deprivation in early childhood experienced by institutionally reared children changes the course of structural brain development. Evidence from the Bucharest Early Intervention Project (BEIP) has demonstrated a causal association of random assignment to high-quality foster care intervention in early childhood with remediation of adolescent structural brain development. To date, however, caregiving quality has not been examined as a mechanism contributing to these neurodevelopmental changes. Moreover, further delineating the effects of developmental timing of high-quality caregiving experiences on neural development is critical to inform intervention for early psychosocial deprivation. In the present study, early childhood caregiving quality was examined as a mechanism u

SUBMITTER: Lurie LA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12517558 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature