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The names of Nazi-era doctors are still found on diseases and body parts. By expunging them, will doctors forget lessons of the past?

The diagnostic terms for autism were overhauled 10 years ago. Experts, campaigners and autistic people reflect on these changes

During her "Saturday Night Live" monologue, Schumer made a thinly veiled reference to Yes recent alleged antisemitic remarks.

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) has become the rising star of childhood psychiatric disorders. But, says Dr. Timimi, like ADHD, autism and ASD are facts of culture rather than facts of nature.

Priya Satia: Why poetry remains a primary resource in remembering and understanding the Partition The first instalment of an essay originally published in 2016. Yesterday · 12:30 pm Displacement is central to Punjabi identity as it is to Jewish and Armenian identity. | Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) What is the poet’s role in history? For a historian of Britain like myself, this question calls to mind the work of EP Thompson, who read the history of the English wo...

síndrome de Asperger,ya que famosos como Elon Musk se refirieron a su diagnóstico. Si bien es un tema del que se viene hablando y las asociaciones especializadas buscan difundir información para que se conozca el síndrome de Asperger, lo cierto es que todavía hay quienes no lo saben o desconocen algunos detalles de este trastorno.  ¿Qué es el síndrome de Asperger? El síndrome de Asperger (AS) es un trastorno del neurodesarrollo que afecta, de manera específica, a la comunicación ...

I will explain something really succinctly that has only been hinted at in research: Autism was pioneered by Soviet psychologists who wanted to integrate gifted children who had been marginalized socially. A bit like the movie Elling. The methods of psychologists like Grunya Sukhareva and Lev Vygotsky were duplicated in parts of Europe that were inspired by the Soviet experiment, including Germany. When the Nazis took over these clinics, people like Hans Asperger steered them in to breeding cen...