Brain inflamation MAY lead to Autism.

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Brain inflammation in young children may contribute to autism, schizophrenia
By Ernie Mundell, HealthDay News, Oct. 12, 2023 / 3:04 PM

Severe inflammation very early in childhood might hamper the development of key brain cells, perhaps setting the stage for conditions such as autism or schizophrenia, new research suggests.

The origins of many neurodevelopment disorders remain mysterious. But the new study of postmortem brain tissue from children who died between the ages 1 and 5 shows how inflammation affects brain cells.

In their research, the team from the University of Maryland School of Medicine targeted a portion of the brain known as the cerebellum, using a cutting-edge technology called single nucleus RNA sequencing.


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Another stupid article basically telling clueless parents yet again why their autistic children are broken defective monsters while we adults get ignored. Of course, most of the replies in the news feed were from antivaxxers who clearly will never have to worry about getting a brain inflammation, because you can't inflame something that's not there.

The world is going to a very hot place in a hand basket and it's all because of NTs and their unshakable beliefs in pseudoscience and religion.

Those who equate science with religion seem to have a very poor understanding of both.

The study was statistical in nature, so I am less inclined to accept it as much as I would even one empirical experiment.

However, the results cannot be discounted on the mere basis of one's own scorn and disbelief.

I see adding Aspergers to classical autism and calling it a spectrum as motivated by those who make money from "treating" the disabled. I see Aspergers as a simple neurological variant. Those children who have actual brain damage or malformation are in need of special care.

The passions stirred by the vaccination debate do not often allow for consideration of possibilities. For example if a child suffers an adverse vaccination reaction of brain swelling, it might explain the classical autism effects afterwards.

"Inflammation" is too vague a word to be very useful in determining a consequence. However, it may point to further research that could be helpful.

This is a bit of a no brainier as they say.

Inflammation is commonly found in autistic brains.

Inflammation in general is a natural bio marker in that something is medically wrong with that the person and has a condition that is a pathology rather than a natural difference.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10 ... 00886/full

https://www.health.harvard.edu/newslett ... flammation

Is there a link to an empirical article with evidence based practices? This sounds like an interesting read.

Regarding the thread title, it is an obvious statement because autism is caused by missing brain connections in the frontal part of the brain, where various hypersensitivities and also certain areas of genuis amongst a few are where during brain development (While the brain is growing), the brain often directs growth into other brain areas of it realises that certain areas are damaged. (Is actually wonderful how the human body does this during development).

Now fits are caused by brain connections shorting so they don't nowhere they are supposed to (Hence the uncontrolled movements). Fortunately the majority of fits are temporary but unfortunately can be fatal in extremes. Fits are not always associated with brain development as some people who may never ever have had a fit, can has a fit due to certain external or internal stresses of situations (E.g. Such as an incorrectly administered or an incorrectly dosed local anaesthetic while at the dentist, where some dentists are not even aware there is a certain measurement of else for a certain body mass size etc, which if too little is administered the patient can feel the pain, but if too much is administered it can lead to fits of cardiac arrest... (Why any had experiences should immediately be followed by a 24 your hospital observation period).

Then we have another brain issue which autism is often misdiagnosed as which is a chemical imbalance in the brain called "Bipolar" where sufferers to from highs to lows. Autism sufferers can also go from highs to lows hence the missdiagnoses. The common notable key difference between the two is that bipolar surferers to from a high to a low in a period of a typical four day cycle (E.g. A low eventually turns into a high four days later etc). Autism sufferers who go from highs to lows due to the brain function rather than a chemical imbalance can go from highs to lows in the same day of even in the same hour. With bipolar it takes a few days for the brain chemicals to change. The good news with bipolar is one can alter the brain chemistry through medication. The importance of correct diagnoses is understated because if autism is misdiagnosed as bipolar, and the patient receives medication, the medication (While the patient is receiving it) actually causes bipolar episodes on top of the natural autism trait, so their lives while on the incorrect medication can be absolutely horrible!

While the vast majority of cases of autism are caused in the development of the brain, it has also been known for those involved in more serious motor accidents to develop autism after the accident. This is due to the damage received to the frontal area of the brain.
(I don't know why autism specifically relates to the frontal area of the brain, but in all the things I have read, they specifically mention that it does. Makes one ask what the other areas of the brain do and what would happen if a patient had an issue with one of these other areas, what the symptoms may be? I have not read anything about this. Next time I visit where I used to live I can ask as a neighbour as she is a brain surgeon, so she might be able to tell me... Though her expertise is in a specific area which I think relates to emergency brain operations? When I was asking her about autism it wasn't her area of expertise though she was highly interested. I also got to talk to another lady who was using an ECM machine on me to check if I had fits. I learned a bit from her as she was able to tell.me what was and what was not possible to monitor in the brain, after I panicked as I thought they could read my thoughts! She was at the forefront of medical technology and she said that she doubted within her lifetime (She was in her 30's) that they would ever be able to do that as the brain has many millions more connections than even the largest computer has and is also a whole lot quicker).


But going back to the title. Yes. It is a given obvious statement as if the brain is inflamed during development, it can cause damage to brain connections or other damage, and autism directly relates to missing brain connections.

So people aren't necessarily born with autism after all?

Now worried that I gave my sister undiagnosed autism when I accidentally smashed her head into the ceiling

Even when brain inflammation leads to autism (in my opinion it does, it isn't just a speculation) - that doesn't mean all cases of autism are caused by that.

I have seen similar studies done solely for schizophrenia, where there was a correlation, perhaps with causation of schizophrenia being linked with air pollution levels (an inflammatory mechanism that occurs because of this results sometimes in schizophrenia).