but they often fail to develop comprehension and common-sense judgment. They seem to lack an intact sense of before-after, cause-effect--and right-wrong. And if these unfortunate children do improve to this higher level of recovery, there is the next challenge, context. This is the ability to predict the consequence of their own acts and be able to feel and believe them in advance. Those who fail at this stage are identified as Asperger's Syndrome, named for the researcher who described this phenomenon. There is no doubt that some of those who get in trouble with the law are actually victims of early life brain injury. This is especially prevalent in violent criminals who end up on 'death row.'
What can cause such injury? How can anything so severe as to cause autism or ADD and lead to criminal behavior in the unlucky ones, be so subtle as to defy detection? For example, many parents of autistic children have independently made the connection between vaccinations and autism. Of course this is not 100 percent; but it may be as high as 30 percent if my cases are any example and that is high! Are the parents wrong? In two cases that come to mind, the children had obvious distress, fever, and behavior change after diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (DTP) vaccinations in their first year of life, were hampered by ADD thereafter, required tutoring to graduate high school, fell into drug usage, and died of heroin overdose before age 25 despite all the love and support their parents could provide.
Brain damage was not such a rare occurence after DTP vaccination before the acellular vaccine was introduced in 1986 and special legislation was enacted to create a fund to reimburse for vaccine injuries. Millions have been paid out to families of injured children. Some of the neurological injuries are immediate and obvious, with paralysis and loss of mental alertness within days or weeks. But there can also be subtle effect due to the immune-depleting effects of the vaccines, which makes some infants more vulnerable to otitis and other infections. As resistance falters, viral and other infections excite cytokine immune hormones, such as Il-2, Il-6, Il-10, IFN-alpha, which stimulate production of corticotropin releasing hormone (CRH), thus turning on the pituitary-adrenal axis.
There is another reason why pertussis vaccine is adverse for neural development. A glance at any neurotoxicology or biochemistry text shows pertussis vaccine as a reliable activator of nerve cell G proteins. In other words, pertussis strongly activates nerve cells. It also activates the immune cells. That is what vaccines are supposed to do. The hazard may be as simple as over-stimulation of nerve cells that are primed for the process of apoptosis. Such cells are found during periods of accelerated development and unfortunately these periods coincide with the schedule of vaccinations for infants: first week (hepatitis B), 2nd month (DTP and hemophilus), 18 months (MMR) and this increases the risk of excessive nerve cell death, from which there can be adaptation but not full recovery. New tracts may develop but new cells are unlikely to appear--or at best to a limited extent.