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Thesis: Leo Kanner and the Psychobiology of Autism
By: Sean Cohmer
| Published: Nov 03, 2020
This thesis illustrates that Kanner held an explicitly descriptive frame of reference toward his eleven child patients, their parents, and autism.…
AutismAutism in literatureAutism--ClassificationAutistic DisorderAutism, Infantile
Early Infantile Autism and the Refrigerator Mother Theory (1943-1970)
By: Sean Cohmer
| Published: Aug 19, 2014
In 1943, child psychiatrist Leo Kanner in the US gave the first account of Early Infantile Autism that encouraged psychiatrists to investigate what…
ContextKanner, Leo, 1894-1981AutismAutism spectrum disordersAutism in children
Infantile Autism: The Syndrome and Its Implications for a Neural Theory of Behavior (1964), by Bernard Rimland
By: Sean Cohmer
| Published: May 23, 2014
Infantile Autism: The Syndrome and Its Implications for a Neural Theory of Behavior (hereafter Infantile Autism) is a book written by Bernard Rimland…
LiteratureAutism in childrenAutismAutism spectrum disordersChildren with autism spectrum disorders
Bernard Rimland (1928-2006)
By: Sean Cohmer
| Published: May 03, 2014
Bernard Rimland studied autism in children in the United States in the second half of the twentieth century. His early research in the 1950s and into…
AutismAutism spectrum disordersAutism in children
Autistic Self Advocacy Network (2006– )
By: Samantha Harker
| Published: Aug 04, 2025
The Autistic Self Advocacy Network, or ASAN, is a non-profit organization, based in Washington, D.C., that is operated by and for autistic…
Autism spectrum disordersHealth InequitiesAutismAutism research
Leo Kanner (1894-1981)
By: Sean Cohmer
| Published: Apr 30, 2014
Leo Kanner studied and described early infantile autism in humans in the US during the twentieth century. Though Eugen Bleuler first coined the term…
AutismAutism in children
"Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact" (1943), by Leo Kanner
By: Sean Cohmer
| Published: May 23, 2014
Leo Kanner published Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact in 1943 in the journal Nervous Child. This article described the cases of eleven…
LiteratureKanner, Leo, 1894-1981AutismAutism in childrenAutistic Disorder
Hans Asperger (1906-1980)
By: Alexandra Bohnenberger
| Published: Aug 27, 2016
Hans Asperger studied mental abnormalities in children in Vienna, Austria, in the early twentieth century. Asperger was one of the early…
Asperger's syndromeMental HealthPsychiatryChild psychiatryWorld Health Organization
Paul Eugen Bleuler (1857–1939)
By: Jessica Resnick
| Published: Apr 06, 2017
Paul Eugen Bleuler studied autism and schizophrenia, among other psychiatric disorders, throughout continental Europe in the early twentieth century…
Dementia PraecoxSchizophrenic DisordersSchizophreniaAutismAutism spectrum disorders
The Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR) Vaccine
By: Christian H. Ross
| Published: Mar 30, 2017
The measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine was created by Maurice Hilleman in 1971 at the Merck Institute of Therapeutic Research, a…
TechnologyMMR VaccineViral vaccinesCombined VaccinesRubella