Dr. Meenakshi Chintappalli | Pediatrician · Behavioral…

Dr. Meenakshi Chintappalli | Pediatrician · Behavioral Neuroscientist · Author · Humanitarian A child who wasn't talking. Wasn't growing. Wasn't thriving. And medicine had no answers, until love did. Early in my career, I met a three-and-a-half-year-old boy who was the height of an 18-month-old. Not eating right. Not speaking. Not connecting. Every test came back inconclusive. Then I found it, emotional deprivation dwarfism. His mother had been emotionally abusing him. Once placed in a foster home filled with warmth and love, he grew two inches in six months. He started making eye contact. He started speaking. That child didn't need a new drug. He needed love. And that moment changed everything for