Dr. Sergiu Pașcă

If you just tell a child, like, oh, look here.

So if they have that attention, if they engage in that attention, it's one of the features that is associated with autism.

It's not certainly diagnostic.

It's not...

pathognomonic, so to speak, so it's not specific to the disease in any way.

But there's certainly many deficits, and some of them can actually be compensated later.

Interesting.

Yeah.

So those are mostly anecdotic reports of patients who would have a very high fever.

And then, for instance, they were nonverbal.

So many patients with autism or individuals with autism will have, you know, will be nonverbal.

They have very few words or if they, you know, they're not able to communicate.

And so there are a few reports of parents saying that when they spike the very high fever, they'll start talking in sentences like very briefly or like engage.

I mean, that is known.

You know, kids in general, when they have a high fever, they tend to be more talkative.

It activates somehow the nervous system.

There have been a lot of hypotheses about this.

Some of them having to do with how the neurodegenerative system is activating during fever.

Others saying that there are some of the cytokines, the immune molecules that are present during fever that are somehow getting into the brain, activating the nervous system.

And others as simple as, oh, ion channels, right?