Asperger's syndrome - about time to rename it?
(2024) Pediatric Research : international journal of human developmental biology — Vol. 95, n° 3, p. 582-584 (2024)
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Bearer, Cynthia 
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- As Editor-in-Chief of Pediatric Research, I was both delighted and fascinated to be asked to moderate the Historic Perspectives session during the 2023 Pediatric Academic Societies’ meeting. I was aghast when I learned about the impact of Naziism on pediatrics in Vienna in the 1930s and 1940s, which had lasting effects. I appreciated, in hindsight, that although I was born after this period in history, what the Nazis had done during the Holocaust had a powerful impact on my family. When we discussed these events, it was incomprehensible that humans could treat other humans in that manner. [...]
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Bearer, C., Abman, S. H., Agostoni, C., Ballard, P., Bliss, J., de Boode, W. P., Canpolat, F. E., Chalak, L., Cilio, M.-R., Dammann, O., Davis, J., El-Metwally, D., Ferriero, D., Ford, S., Fuentes-Afflick, E., Gano, D., Giussani, D., Gonzalez, F., Gunn, A., et al. (2024). Asperger’s syndrome - about time to rename it? Pediatric Research : international journal of human developmental biology, 95(3), 582-584. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41390-023-02885-8 (Original work published 2024)