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[embyronicdoc]

What is mowgli's syndromw.

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[Sam M]

Hello,

I'm only a pre med but do you mind if I have a bash at the question???

I think the term was mentioned in passing on my GCSE sociology class when we were covering feral children...

We did a case study on a 'feral' child called Genie. She was not the typical feral child as she was not brought up by animals this is why I have used the word feral loosly. From what I can remember her dad locked her in a dark room untill she was a teenager. She couldn't talk because nobody had talked to her, etc.

I found the link.

http://www.mymultiplesclerosis.co.uk...ild-child.html

I'm not too sure what the proper definition of the mowgli's syndrome is but I think it is to do with extreme neglect affecting the development of people...

Perhaps someone else could give a more detailed answer???

[medigirl]

Mowgli Syndrome is a term that is often given to children that are found with severe cognitive and/or physical deficiencies that are not the result of any biological cause, but rather are due to severe neglect. These children originally comprised of two recognized categories

Victims of psychogenic dwarfism due to severe abuse and neglect by their parents or guardians, or
Feral children, who are children that grew up outside of the influence of civilization, and are sometimes reportedly raised by wild animals.
Of late, this term has been used to denote parentless children of HIV positive parents [1].

The name originates from the character Mowgli, created by Rudyard Kipling in his The Jungle Book. Please note, however, that "Mowgli Syndrome" is not an official diagnosis and that it is merely a rarely used descriptive term for children with extraordinarily deficient upbringings that cause them to have trouble adjusting to the normal culture that they would have otherwise been raised in.

Hope this helps x