Autism and Food Selectivity- Mini Review

Volume 2 - Issue 2

Roberto Carlos Mourão Pinho*

• Faculty Dentistry, Federal University of Pernambuco UFPE, Brazil

Received: September 25, 2019;   Published: September 27, 2019

*Corresponding author: Roberto Carlos Mourão Pinho, Faculty Dentistry, Federal University of Pernambuco UFPE, Brazil

DOI: 10.32474/SJFN.2019.02.000135

 

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Abstract

The label “autism” has become one of the most important linguistic and conceptual creations in medical and psychological nomenclature, and has two names linked to pioneering studies: Austrian pediatrician Hans Asperger and Austrian psychiatrist Leo Kanner. Seventy years have passed since the publication of Asperger’s text on autism (1944), Kanner’s article (1943) had been known since its publication. Asperger was totally ignored until 1976 when English psychiatrist Lorna Wing published an article summarizing the work [1]. Kanner (1943), who first described and named early childhood autism, believed it was a distinct entity to be clearly distinguished from mental retardation, but there are many people who would argue that the two cannot be separated [2].

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