I do not claim that my work pioneered the biological understanding of autism. For decades, researchers worldwide—at institutions such as Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Karolinska, Columbia, UC San Diego, and Baylor—have published rigorous studies that challenge the view of autism as purely genetic or behavioral. My contribution is to clarify how these diverse biological discoveries come together in actual clinical cases, supporting a view of autism as a complex biological condition.

How Infections Shape Our Brains, Bodies, Lives, and Future Instead of a Preface A human life rarely unfolds as a single, continuous story. More often, it resembles several lives lived within one lifetime. Interests change. Ideas emerge and disappear. Convictions evolve. External events—political, scientific, or deeply personal—can redirect a life in ways that no one could predict. Only in retrospect do we begin to understand how these different lives are connected. This book

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CHAPTER 3. The Karnofsky Scale Tatyana The story of the international Max-Well USA brand ended roughly where it began—with the investor’s sudden escape to London. At that point, without investors, but with a small and stubborn group of like-minded colleagues, I decided to create a center of our own, even if tiny. It would become a testing ground for the treatment methods for severe chronic diseases that we had developed while working with the first two centers. We weren’t tr

Chapter 1: The Retropharyngeal Abscess More than twenty years have passed since my father died. And yet he is the person I remember most vividly, the one I think about almost every day. I sometimes look back and question whether my father played a more essential role than I realized. It is as if he handed me a lens I didn't know I was carrying, allowing me, decades later, to see the invisible thread connecting a body's struggle with infection to the brain's struggle with deve