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    Leo Kanner (/ˈkænər/; born Chaskel Leib Kanner; June 13, 1894 – April 3, 1981) was an Austrian-American psychiatrist, physician, and social activist best...
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  • Leo Kanner called attention to what appeared to him as a lack of warmth among the fathers and mothers of autistic children. In a 1949 paper, Kanner suggested...
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  • television director Heinrich Kanner (1864–1930), Austrian author Leo Kanner (1894–1981), Austrian-American psychiatrist Patrick Kanner (born 1957), French politician...
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  • 1940s, Hans Asperger and Leo Kanner described two related syndromes, later termed infantile autism and Asperger syndrome. Kanner thought that the condition...
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    psychosis, Kanner's autism, Kanner's syndrome, or (formerly) just autism, is a neurodevelopmental condition first described by Leo Kanner in 1943. It...
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    being the first person diagnosed with autism. He was first diagnosed by Leo Kanner in 1943 and was labeled as "Case 1". Triplett was noted for his savant...
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    surgery by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas, and child psychiatry by Leo Kanner. Johns Hopkins Children's Center, which serves infants, children, teens...
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  • Austrian educator Theodor Heller (1869–1938) in 1908, 35 years before Leo Kanner and Hans Asperger described autism. Heller had previously used the name...
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  • autistic-like traits in Silicon Valley, The works and legacy of Hans Asperger and Leo Kanner, who both described autism near simultaneously, are compared. Silberman...
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    the topic. Bender and Schilder's contemporaries like Hans Asperger and Leo Kanner also wrote about the matter, which was important to the development of...
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  • researchers — Austrian-born Asperger and child psychiatrist Leo Kanner (1894–1981). Kanner emigrated to the United States in 1924; he described a similar...
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    that challenged the previously accepted model of autism presented by Leo Kanner in 1943. It was not until 1991 that an authoritative translation of Asperger's...
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    as a book that pushes an agenda, saying that Silberman misrepresented Leo Kanner as somebody who had a negative view towards autistics and their parents...
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  • main cause of autism. Leo Kanner and Bruno Bettelheim's role in the formation of this theory is examined, with emphasis on Kanner's position vis à vis the...
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    laborers, often callously treated and often abandoned by their "carers." Leo Kanner denounced this scandal in front of the American Psychiatric Association...
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  • created almost two decades before the case reports of Hans Asperger and Leo Kanner, which were published while Sukhareva's pioneering work remained unnoticed...
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    baby operation, headed the pediatric cardiac clinic. Child psychiatrist Leo Kanner did studies of autistic children. Lawson Wilkins established an endocrine...
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  • diagnosed case of ASD was published in 1943 by American psychiatrist Leo Kanner. There is a wide range of cases and severity to ASD so it is very hard...
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    Malakoff-Médéric foundation opens a specialized French site at the end of 2018. Leo Kanner, the child psychiatrist who discovered infantile autism, followed the...
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    Commission and former White House Usher, lived in the Howard Lodge as a child. Leo Kanner, child psychiatrist and autism researcher, died there on April 3, 1981...
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    Frisch (1886–1982), physician, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Leo Kanner (1894–1981), child psychiatrist Helen Singer Kaplan (1929-1995), sex therapist...
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    Bloomberg Distinguished Professor for Associative Learning and Addiction Leo Kanner, "father of child psychiatry" who first described autism in Autistic Disturbances...
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    Romantic era, and the antipsychiatry movement. He further claims that Leo Kanner originated the modern version of the neurodiversity movement through studying...
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  • disease – Otto Kahler Kallmann syndrome – Franz Josef Kallmann Kanner syndrome – Leo Kanner Kaposi sarcoma – Moritz Kaposi Kartagener syndrome – Manes Kartagener...
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  • botanist Eric Kandel, neuropsychiatrist (born Vienna, emigrated to the US) Leo Kanner, child psychiatrist Fritz Köberle, physician (emigrated to Brazil) Karl...
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    baby operation, headed the pediatric cardiac clinic. Child psychiatrist Leo Kanner did studies of autistic children. Lawson Wilkins established an endocrine...
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  • all of his four study subjects being male. Another early researcher, Leo Kanner described "autistic disturbances of affective contact" in the group consisting...
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    withholding of affection. Leo Kanner, who first described autism, suggested that parental coldness might contribute to autism. Although Kanner eventually renounced...
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  • autistic children to conditions in concentration camps. It appears that Leo Kanner first came up with the term "refrigerator mother," although Bettelheim...
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  • (b. 1918) April 3 Juan Trippe, American airline entrepreneur (b. 1899) Leo Kanner, Austrian-American psychiatrist, physician, and social activist (b. 1894)...
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