"Orphanages" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Institutions for the housing and care of orphans, foundlings, and abandoned children. They have existed as such since the medieval period but the heading is applicable to such usage also in modern parlance.
| Descriptor ID |
D019372
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| MeSH Number(s) |
J03.775.640
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2001 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Orphanages" by people in Profiles.
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Kumar A, Behen ME, Singsoonsud P, Veenstra AL, Wolfe-Christensen C, Helder E, Chugani HT. Microstructural abnormalities in language and limbic pathways in orphanage-reared children: a diffusion tensor imaging study. J Child Neurol. 2014 Mar; 29(3):318-25.
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Chugani HT, Behen ME, Muzik O, Juh?sz C, Nagy F, Chugani DC. Local brain functional activity following early deprivation: a study of postinstitutionalized Romanian orphans. Neuroimage. 2001 Dec; 14(6):1290-301.
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Reeves GD, Bachrach S, Carpenter TO, Mackenzie WG. Vitamin D-deficiency rickets in adopted children from the former Soviet Union: an uncommon problem with unusual clinical and biochemical features. Pediatrics. 2000 Dec; 106(6):1484-8.