Rett syndrome was discovered by Dr. Andreas Rett, an Austrian physician who documented the disorder in a journal artcile in 1966. Unfortunately, not until 1983, after another article on Rett syndrome was published by Swedish physician Dr. Bengt Hagberg, that the disorder was officially recognized by the public and physicians.
How Rett Syndrome was Discovered
-Andreas Rett
In 1954, pediatrician Dr. Andreas Rett of Vienna, Austria, noticed two girls who sat with their mothers in the waiting room who exhibited similar hand-washing motions. In 1966, Rett published his findings (a film he made of women all experiencing the same symptoms) in several German medical journals, but the magazines in which his articles were published were not main-streamed enough in to the world-wide medical community for the disorder to be widely known.
-Bengt Hagberg
Although Rett published an article on his self-named disorder, Rett syndrome, in 1966, a paper published by Dr. Bengt Hagberg in 1983 resulted in Rett syndrome becoming widely known in the medical world.
Please visit the following for more information on the history of Rett syndrome and lther useful information about the disorder:
- http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/rett/detail_rett.htm
- http://www.rettsyndrome.org/understandimg-rett-syndrome/about-rett-syndrome/history
- http://www.bundlings.com/irsg.htm
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