Exposure to Early Psychosocial Deprivation Can Undermine Healthy Brain Development

Healthy brain development depends on experiences that occur during relatively narrow windows of time. Dr. Charles Nelson describes a 15-year longitudinal study of children abandoned at birth...

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SHERI MISUMORI: Actually, from Dr. McLaughlin's lecture, that-- you can see that Dr. Nelson'slecture is going to follow very nicely.We are really honored to have him here tonight as our guest lecturer.Dr. Charles Nelson is a Professor at Harvard University.And he received his PhD in developmental and child psychology from the University of Kansas,after which he was a post-doc at the University of Minnesota.He then joined the faculty at Purdue University in 1984 and the University of Minnesota in1986.And then he moved to Harvard in 2005.Now Dr. Nelson's research interests focuses on the effects of early experience on brainand behavioral development, particularly in the areas of memory and facial recognition.He studies typical and atypical develop...