Clinical trialNCT00747396Active, not recruitingInterventional

The Bucharest Early Intervention Project

SponsorCharles Alexander Nelson IIIEnrollment136Brain FunctionCognitive Ability, GeneralExecutive FunctionHealth BehaviorPsychiatric and/or Mood DisordersRisk-Taking+1 more conditions

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Summary

The lay summary the sponsor registered on ClinicalTrials.gov.

The purpose of this study is to determine the long term effects of early intervention (placement into foster care) on physical, cognitive, social and brain development and psychiatric symptomatology in previously institutionalized children.

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Investigators

The overall officials registered on this study. Names that resolve to a findmyKOL profile link to it; the rest are shown as registered.

Charles A Nelson, Ph.D.
Children's Hospital Boston/Harvard University
Principal Investigator
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Charles H. Zeanah, M.D.
Tulane University Health Sciences Center
Principal Investigator
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Nathan A. Fox, Ph.D.
University of Maryland
Principal Investigator
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Sites

1 registered facility, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

Romania

Fundatia Tanner
Bucharest, Romania

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Drugs studied

No drug or biological interventions are in our data for this study — it may test a procedure, device or behavioral intervention, or the intervention list isn't in our current snapshot. See the registry record ↗. Why? →

Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start: 30 Sept 2000
Primary completion: 31 Mar 2027
Completion: 31 Mar 2027
Last update posted: 10 Dec 2025
Registered enrollment: 136
Registry id: NCT00747396

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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 24 Aug 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; findmyKOL does not interpret them.