We contacted the autism brain back here in the United Kingdom where they had brain tissues

from 10 individuals who died with a diagnosis of autism. Five of those brains were suitable

for quantitative analysis where we could measure how much aluminium was present and all

10 were suitable to use our very beautiful technique of imaging aluminium in tissue and

brain tissue. And that's what we did. And when my PhD student who did the first measurements

of the aluminium, how much aluminium there was in the brain tissue came to me with the

results I told her to go back and look at all of this again because we thought we had

seen astronomical amounts of aluminium in familial Alzheimer's disease. And then we saw

values at least as high in autism brain tissue. And as I wrote eventually in the publication

that we made in the abstract, you know, why a 15 year old boy brain when he died would

have amounts of aluminium almost never measured before is almost incomprehensible.