Andrew Huberman· PhD
so you you mentioned fragile X which um we know um presents with autism like symptoms in some cases and then I think of another disease like um Timothy syndrome a mutation in an L Type calcium channel which um for those of you that don't know what these cell type calcium channels are they're they're not just important for the function of neurons in the brain they're really important for the function of neurons and other other tissues including heart tissue right so um kids with Timothy Syndrome have cardiac issues yeah and they have autism so you know I think it's important for us to kind of explore this a bit because in most people's minds you know kids with autism have autism and occasionally they'll have other issues you know gut issues or heart issues or um muscular skeletal issues but we often think that that's the consequence of the autism but often times that they have multiple things going on and the autism actually could be secondary or independent of the other thing that's going on