The Bucharest Early Intervention Project
Publications
Selected Publications
Zeanah, C.H., Nelson, C.A., Fox, N.A., Smyke, A.T., Marshall, P., Parker, S.W., & Koga, S. (2003). Designing research to study the effects of institutionalization on brain and behavioral development: The Bucharest Early Intervention Project. Development and Psychopathology, 15, 885-907.
Marshall, P.J., Fox, N.A., & the BEIP Core Group. (2004). A comparison of the electroencephalogram between institutionalized and community children in Romania. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16(8), 1327-1338.
Zeanah, C.H., Smyke, A.T., Koga, S.F.M., Carlson, E., & the BEIP Core Group. (2005). Attachment in institutionalized and community children in Romania. Child Development, 76(5), 1015-1028.
Zeanah, C.H., Koga, S.F.M., Simion, B., Stanescu, A., Tabacaru, C., Fox, N.A., Nelson, C.A., & the BEIP Core Group. (2006). Ethical considerations in international research collaboration: The Bucharest Early Intervention Project. Infant Mental Health Journal, 27(6), 559-576.
Zeanah, C.H., Koga, S.F.M., Simion, B., Stanescu, A., Tabacaru, C., Fox, N.A., Nelson, C.A., & the BEIP Core Group. (2006). Response to commentary: Ethical dimensions of the BEIP. Infant Mental Health Journal, 27(6), 581-583.
Nelson, C.A., Zeanah, C.H., Fox, N.A., Marshall, P. J., Smyke, A.T., & Guthrie, D. (2007). Cognitive recovery in socially deprived young children: The Bucharest Early Intervention Project. Science, 318, 1937-1940.
Bos, Karen J., Fox, N., Zeanah, C.H., & Nelson, C.N. (2009). Effects of early psychosocial deprivation on the development of memory and executive function. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 3, 1-7.
Nelson, C.A., Furtado, E.A., Fox, N.A., & Zeanah, C.H. (2009). The deprived human brain. American Scientist, 97, 222-229.
Smyke, A.T., Zeanah, C.H., Fox, N.A., & Nelson, C.A. (2009). A new model of foster care for young children: The Bucharest Early Intervention Project. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America,
18(3), 721-734.
Zeanah, C.H., Egger. H.L., Smyke, A.T., Nelson, C.A., Fox, N.A., Marshall, P.J., & Guthrie, D. (2009). Institutional rearing and psychiatric disorders in Romanian preschool children. American Journal of Psychiatry, 166, 777-785.
Bos, K., Zeanah, C.Z., Fox, N.A., & Nelson, C.A. (2010). Stereotypies in children with a history of early institutional care. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, 164(5), 406-411.
McLaughlin, K.A., Fox, N.A., Zeanah, C.H., Sheridan, M. A., Marshall, P.J., & Nelson, C.A. (2010). Delayed maturation in brain electrical activity partially explains the association between early environmental deprivation and symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Biological Psychiatry, 68, 329-336.
Smyke, A.T., Zeanah, C.H., Fox, N.A., Nelson, C.A., & Guthrie, D. (2010). Placement in foster care enhances quality of attachment among young institutionalized children. Child Development, 81(1), 212-223.
Vanderwert, R.E., Marshall, P.J., Nelson, C.A., Zeanah, C.H., & Fox, N.A. (2010). Timing of intervention affects brain electrical activity in children exposed to severe psychosocial neglect. PLoS ONE, 5(7), 1-5.
Drury, S.S., Theall, K.P., Gleason, M.M., Smyke, A.T., Devivo, I., Wong, J.Y.Y., Fox, N.A., Zeanah, C.H., & Nelson, C.A. (17 May 2011; Eprint ahead of pub). Telomere length and early severe social deprivation: Linking early adversity and cellular aging. Molecular Psychiatry.
Fox, Nathan A., Almas, A.N. Degnan, K.A., Nelson, C.A., & Zeanah, C.H. (2011). The effects of severe psychosocial deprivation and foster care intervention on cognitive development at 8 years of age: Findings from the Bucharest Early Intervention Project. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 52(9), 919–928.
Gleason, M.M., Fox, N.A., Drury, S., Smyke, A.T., Egger, H.L., Nelson, C.A., Gregas, M.G., & Zeanah, C.H. (2011). Validity of evidence-derived criteria for reactive attachment disorder: Indiscriminately social/disinhibited and emotionally withdrawn/inhibited types. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 50(3), 216-231.
McLaughlin, K.A., Zeanah. C.H., Fox, N.A., & Nelson, C.A. (2012). Attachment security as a mechanism linking foster care placement to improved mental health outcomes in previously institutionalized children. Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry, 53(1), 46-55.
Zeanah, C.H., Fox, N.A., & Nelson, C.A. (2012). The Bucharest Early Intervention Project: Case study in the ethics of mental health research. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 200(3), 243-247.
Commentaries on BEIP
Wassenar, D.R. (2006). Commentary: Ethical considerations in international research collaboration: The Bucharest Early Intervention Project. Infant Mental Health Journal, 27(6), 577-580.
Millum, J. & Emanuel, E.J. (2007). The ethics of international research with abandoned children.
Science, 318, 1874-1875.
Editor. (2008). The ethical neuroscientist. Nature Neuroscience, 11, 239.
Miller, F.G. (2009). The randomized controlled trial as a demonstration project: An ethical perspective. American Journal of Psychiatry, 166, 743-745.
Glowinski, A.L. (2011). Reactive attachment disorder: An evolving entity. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 50(3), 210-212.
Rid, A. (2012). When is research socially valuable? Lessons from the Bucharest Early Intervention Project: commentary on a case study in the ethics of mental health research. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 200(3), 248-249.
Schechter, D.S. (2012). Editorial: The developmental neuroscience of emotional neglect, its consequences, and the psychological interventions that can reverse them. American Journal of Psychiatry, 169, 452-454.
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