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Leo Kanner (/ ˈ k æ n ər /; born Chaskel Leib Kanner; June 13, 1894 – April 3, 1981) was an Austrian-American psychiatrist, physician, and social activist best known for his work related to infantile autism. Before working at the Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Kanner practiced as a physician in Germany and ...
May 7, 2024 · Leo Kanner was an Austrian American psychiatrist referred to as the “father of child psychiatry” in the United States. He is considered to be one of the most influential American clinical psychiatrists of the 20th century. Kanner was born in a small town in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and in 1906.
Jun 6, 2023 · The life of Leo Kanner, M.D., encompassed, by his own account, far more than the first description of autism in English. Much of his personal journey is described in an unpublished autobiography that is preserved in APA’s Archives; it illuminates an extraordinary life yet barely mentions the psychiatric condition for which he is best known today.
Oct 3, 2015 · Leo Kanner, Hans Asperger, and the discovery of autism. Simon Baron-Cohen. Published: October 03, 2015 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736 (15)00337-2. Leo Kanner, Hans Asperger, and the discovery of autism. Steve Silberman discovered a well-kept secret about autism. In his stunning big book NeuroTribes (big in size at more than 500 pages ...
- Simon Baron-Cohen
- 2015
Leo Kanner, 1894-1981. Leo Kanner is widely credited with discovering autism. His 1943 case study, “Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact,” described a bizarre new disorder so evocatively that children diagnosed in the following years were sometimes said to have “Kanner’s syndrome.”.
Feb 24, 2021 · Any discussion of the development of autism as a diagnostic concept inevitably starts with the work of Leo Kanner and his landmark observation in 1943 (Kanner 1943). Kanner ( 1943 ) described 11 children, 8 boys and 3 girls, who presented with “inborn autistic disturbances of affective contact”.
Abstract. In 1943, Leo Kanner published the first systematic description of early infantile autism. He concluded that this was a neurodevelopmental disorder and that 'these children have come into the world with an innate inability to form the usual, biologically provided contact with people'.
