• DOI:10.1080/09540261.2018.1455646
Corpus ID: 4978549

Leo Kanner and autism: a 75-year perspective

@article{Harris2018LeoKA,
  title={Leo Kanner and autism: a 75-year perspective},
  author={James Harris},
  journal={International Review of Psychiatry},
  year={2018},
  volume={30},
  pages={17 - 3}
}

James Harris

Published 2018

Medicine, Psychology

International Review of Psychiatry

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’. Moreover, his astute descriptions of parental behavior in his first publications were prescient and underlie later recognition of the importance of genetics. Our understanding has grown over the ensuing… CONTINUE READING

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