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Rimland, Bernard

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Name and Degrees

  • Bernard Rimland

  • B.A. Psychology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 1950

  • M.A. Psychology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, 1951

  • Ph.D. Psychology, Pennsylvania State University, PA, 1954

Major Appointments (Institution, Location, Dates)

  • Director, Autism Research Institute, San Diego, CA

Landmark Clinical, Scientific, and Professional Contributions

A psychologist who worked for the US Navy as a researcher, Dr. Rimland’s interest in autism arose when his son was diagnosed with the condition. At that time, the “refrigerator mother” notion of causation was still prominent (e.g., through the work of Bettelheim and others); Rimland conducted his own research, and in a groundbreaking book Infantile Autism: The Syndrome and Its Implications for a Neural Theory of Behavior, he provided a strong argument for the neurobiological cause of the condition. He also was the developer of one of the first rating scales for autism. His emphasis on the brain rather than...

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  • Rimland, B. (1964). Infantile autism: The syndrome and its implications for a neural theory of behavior. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts.

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  • Rimland, B. (1968). On the objective diagnosis of infantile autism. Acta Paedopsychiatrica, 35(4), 146–161.

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  • Rimland, B. (1971). The differentiation of childhood psychoses: An analysis of checklists. Journal of Autism and Childhood Schizophrenia, 1(2), 161–174.

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  • Rimland, B. (2004). Association between thimerosal-containing vaccine and autism: Comment. JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 291(2), 180.

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  • Rimland, B., & Ney, P. G. (1974). Infantile autism: Status of research. Canadian Psychiatric Association Journal, 19(2), 130–135.

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  1. Child Study Center, Irving B. Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics and Psychology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

    Fred R. Volkmar

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  1. Yale Child Study Center, New Haven, CT, USA

    Fred R. Volkmar

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Volkmar, F.R. (2020). Rimland, Bernard. In: Volkmar, F. (eds) Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6435-8_2037-3

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