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Kan·ner's syndrome

n :  INFANTILE AUTISM
 
Kanner, Leo (1894-1981),
American psychiatrist. For most of his career Kanner was associated with Johns Hopkins University as a professor of psychiatry and as a child psychiatrist. The author of many books, he published a textbook on child psychiatry in 1957 and a history of the study and care of the mentally retarded in 1964.
 
 

 
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