Asperger syndrome
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Asperger syndrome was first described by a German doctor, Hans Asperger, in 1944 (one year after Leo Kanner's first paper on autism). In his paper, Dr. Asperger discussed individuals who exhibited many idiosyncratic, odd-like behaviors. [1]
Barbara Kirby wrote:
- Asperger Syndrome or (Asperger's Disorder) is a neurobiological disorder named for a Viennese physician, Hans Asperger, who in 1944 published a paper which described a pattern of behaviors in several young boys who had normal intelligence and language development, but who also exhibited autistic-like behaviors and marked deficiencies in social and communication skills. [2]
As with many psychological problems, Asperger's syndrome is often described in the popular press as causing the strange behavior which the diagnosis describes. There is no known cause of Asperger's [1] although it has been called a "neurobiological disorder".