Classic Papers
-
classic paperIt took 50 years for scientists to develop instruments reliable enough to be considered the gold standards for diagnosing autism.
Autism has always been around, but it was not until the mid-1940s that Leo Kanner in the United States and Hans Asperger in Austria, both physicians, independently described children with what we...→
-
classic paperAnd yet, what are we to do about this terribly significant business of other people... so ill-equipped are we all to envision one another's interior workings and invisible aims?
-Philip Roth, American Pastoral
**
Most people are vastly more interested in the invisible aspects of other people’s actions than in the visible ones. What...→
-
classic paperFolstein S. and Rutter M. Infantile autism: A genetic study of 21 twin pairs. J. Child Psychol. Psychiat. 18, 297-321 (1977)1 PubMed
Autism is caused by poor parenting, particularly by ‘frigid’ mothers who reject their children.
Such a statement would seem bizarre today. But 30 years ago parents, especially mothers, were blamed...→
-
classic paperAmir R.E. et al. Rett syndrome is caused by mutations in X-linked MECP2, encoding methyl-CpG-binding protein 2. Nat. Genet. 23,185-188 (1999)1 PubMed
In 1997 I took part in a workshop convened by the US National Institutes of Health to sift through the conflicting literature surrounding a rare and then poorly understood...→
-
classic paperKanner L. Autistic disturbances of affective contact. Nervous Child 2, 217–250 (1943) PDF
Donald T. was not like other five-year-old boys.
Leo Kanner knew that the moment he read the 33-page letter from Donald’s father that described the boy in obsessive detail as “happiest when he was alone... drawing into a shell and...→
Copyright 2008 © Simons Foundation