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Thesis: Leo Kanner and the Psychobiology of Autism
By: Sean Cohmer
| Published: Nov 03, 2020
This thesis illustrates that Kanner held an explicitly descriptive frame of reference toward his eleven child patients, their parents, and autism.…
AutismAutism in literatureAutism--ClassificationAutistic DisorderAutism, Infantile
Early Infantile Autism and the Refrigerator Mother Theory (1943-1970)
By: Sean Cohmer
| Published: Aug 19, 2014
In 1943, child psychiatrist Leo Kanner in the US gave the first account of Early Infantile Autism that encouraged psychiatrists to investigate what…
ContextKanner, Leo, 1894-1981AutismAutism spectrum disordersAutism in children
Infantile Autism: The Syndrome and Its Implications for a Neural Theory of Behavior (1964), by Bernard Rimland
By: Sean Cohmer
| Published: May 23, 2014
Infantile Autism: The Syndrome and Its Implications for a Neural Theory of Behavior (hereafter Infantile Autism) is a book written by Bernard Rimland…
LiteratureAutism in childrenAutismAutism spectrum disordersChildren with autism spectrum disorders
"Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact" (1943), by Leo Kanner
By: Sean Cohmer
| Published: May 23, 2014
Leo Kanner published Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact in 1943 in the journal Nervous Child. This article described the cases of eleven…
LiteratureKanner, Leo, 1894-1981AutismAutism in childrenAutistic Disorder
Bernard Rimland (1928-2006)
By: Sean Cohmer
| Published: May 03, 2014
Bernard Rimland studied autism in children in the United States in the second half of the twentieth century. His early research in the 1950s and into…
AutismAutism spectrum disordersAutism in children
Leo Kanner (1894-1981)
By: Sean Cohmer
| Published: Apr 30, 2014
Leo Kanner studied and described early infantile autism in humans in the US during the twentieth century. Though Eugen Bleuler first coined the term…
AutismAutism in children
John Bertrand Gurdon (1933- )
By: Inbar Maayan, Sean Cohmer
| Published: Oct 11, 2012
Sir John Bertrand Gurdon further developed nuclear transplantation, the technique used to clone organisms and to create stem cells, while working in…
Cell nuclei--TransplantationCellsCloningStem CellsEmbryonic Stem Cells
2D Obstetric Ultrasound
By: Sean Cohmer
| Published: Jan 01, 2012
The development of the obstetric ultrasound has allowed physicians and embryologists to obtain a clear picture of the developing human embryo and…
TechnologyUltrasonographyReproductionmedicineHuman Development
Thomas Joseph King Jr. (1921-2000)
By: Sean Cohmer
| Published: Jan 01, 2012
Thomas Joseph King Jr. was a developmental biologist who, with fellow scientist Robert Briggs, pioneered a method of transplanting nuclei from…
PeopleNuclear Transfer TechniquesBiographyNuclear TransplantationCancer
"Developmental Capacity of Nuclei Transplanted from Keratinized Skin Cells of Adult Frogs" (1975), by John Gurdon, Ronald Laskey, and O. Raymond Reeves
By: Sean Cohmer
| Published: Jun 14, 2011
In 1975 John Gurdon, Ronald Laskey, and O. Raymond Reeves published "Developmental Capacity of Nuclei Transplanted from Keratinized Skin Cells of…
Nuclear Transfer TechniquesExperimentsPublicationsFrogsNuclear Transplantation