{"id":456,"date":"2014-03-02T12:15:49","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T17:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/?p=456"},"modified":"2014-03-02T12:15:49","modified_gmt":"2014-03-02T17:15:49","slug":"adopted-children-experience-poorly-wired-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/?p=456","title":{"rendered":"Adopted Children Experience Poorly Wired Brains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adopted children can present very challenging behaviors for adoptive parents.\u00a0 This is partially due to &#8216;poor&#8217; wiring in the brain of adopted children.\u00a0 In the early stages of life, the neurons in the brain begin to undergo significant connectivity based on their environment.\u00a0 Absences of proper stimuli inhibit proper neuron connectivity in early brain development.\u00a0 But, take heart, adoptive parents!\u00a0 This can be changed, as the brain is very &#8216;plastic&#8217;.\u00a0 Neurofeedback can help the brain of adopted kids make better connections.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/health\/2014\/02\/20\/280237833\/orphans-lonely-beginnings-reveal-how-parents-shape-a-childs-brain\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s an article from NPR on the brains of adopted children<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adopted children can present very challenging behaviors for adoptive parents.\u00a0 This is partially due to &#8216;poor&#8217; wiring in the brain of adopted children.\u00a0 In the early stages of life, the neurons in the brain begin to undergo significant connectivity based &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/?p=456\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":457,"href":"http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions\/457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}