Nelson proposed that children in the most deprived institutionalized environments are cognitively impaired for all of the following reasons except

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Nelson did not propose that children in deprived institutionalized environments have elevated levels of glucose metabolism. Instead, he proposed that such children may experience a reduction in cortical brain activity due to a lack of species-typical experiences and the potential loss of neurons and synapses.

Nelson Proposed That Children in the Most Deprived Institutionalized Environments