Unbelievable. Just released from Harvard-affiliate McLean Hospital!! We are injecting children on Day 1 of life with a substance that triggers immune activation! It's not that hard to figure out that 1+1=2!! This is HUGE and so CORROBORATIVE to all other recent findings!
"Neuroscientists have found that even a brief episode of immune system activation within days of birth can cause persistent changes in sleep patterns concurrent with increases in epilepsy-like brain activity -- a combination of symptoms common in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other developmental conditions."
Here's the study:
https://www.nature.com/articles/npp2017243
Here's the press release:
For those of you tracking this topic, this is HUGE. As you may recall, Dr. Peter Hotez keeps saying autism happens in the womb..guess what, this experiment was after mice were BORN. Some choice quotes:
“A growing body of evidence suggests that immune system activation, such as that caused by bacterial and viral infections, can play important roles in many brain disorders,” explained Bill Carlezon, PhD, chief of the Division of Basic Neuroscience at McLean Hospital, and senior author of the paper. “While previous research in laboratory animals has established that immune activation during critical prenatal (before birth) developmental periods can later produce the core features of ASD, including decreased social interaction, aberrant communication, and increased repetitive behavior, we wanted to evaluate whether postnatal (during infancy) immune activation could also produce other symptom clusters that are often seen in ASD and related conditions.”
It's all there hiding in plain sight for anyone with a brain...