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KANNER, Leo (1894 – 1981)

KANNER, Leo (1894 – 1981)

1894 – 1981

4 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source Johns Hopkins University · The photo is a cropped version of the original, which is Order Number B015753 in the National Library of Medicine. The date and author (below) are taken from the NLM's MARC record. The photograph was published in 1955 without a copyright notice. The photo has been cropped, color level adjusted (via curve), desaturated, healed to fix minor defects, and converted to JPEG (quality level 88), with the GIMP 2.6.6. · Public domain

1928

#10639

Folklore of the teeth.

1935

#8894

Child psychiatry.

Leo Kanner, an Austrian émigré and medical graduate of the University of Berlin, founded the first academic department of child psychiatry under the direction of Adolf Meyer at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Kanner was t…

1936

#10640

Rumination number. Historical notes on rumination in man. The first historical monograph on the subject.

The first historical monograph on rumination syndrome or merycism.

1943

#7625

Autistic disturbances of affective contact.

The first description of “early infantile autism” as a disorder marked by extreme detachment, self-isolation, inability to form relationships, frequent failure to acquire communicative abilities, and preoccupation wit…