“…There is a growing body of research that demonstrates abnormal neural de velopment in young children living in an adverse environment of institutional re aring (Belalov, Dyagileva, Pavlenko, & Kochukhova, 2014;Kochukhova, Mikhailova, Dyagileva, Makhin, & Pavlenko, 2016;McLaughlin, Sheridan, & Lambert, 2014;Nelson, Bos, Gunnar, & Sonuga-Barke, 2012;Nelson & Gabard-Durnam, 2020;Smyke et al, 2007;Stamoulis, Vanderwert, Zeanah, Fox, & Nelson, 2017). For example, Sheridan and colleagues (Sheridan, Fox, Zeanah, McLaughlin, & Nelson, 2012) revealed that the reduction of resting EEG α-power is partly mediated by a general reduction of cortical white matter volume in Romanian institutionalized children.…”