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#1: Title: Mother rat mustn’t leave her children Medium: Colored pencils Dimension: Two dimensional Quote: "Schanberg first began his rat experiment as a result of his work in pediatrics; he was especially interested in psychological dwarfism. Some children who live in emotionally destructive homes just stop growing. Schanberg found that even growth-hormone injections couldn't prompt the stunted bodies of such children to grow again, but tender loving care did. The affection they received from the nurses when they were admitted to a hospital was often enough to get them back on the right track. What's amazing is that the process is reversible at all. When Schanberg's experiments with infant rats produced identical results, he began to think about human preemies, who are typically isolated and spend much of their early life without human contact. Animals depend on being close to their mothers for basic survival. If the mothe...