Rhonda Patrick has an information-dense talk on sulforaphane.<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz4YVJ4aRfg" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz4YVJ4aRfg</a>
I used to spend a lot of time on an alternative medicine forum whose primary goal was to provide support for parents of children with ASD and similar conditions. They primarily were focused on metal poisoning, but some kids were being treated for infection, such as PANDAS.<p>Perhaps some cases of ASD involve infection and fever helps suppress it a bit.
I belive this is caused by anti-inflammatory medication and not by the fever itself.<p>There is plenty of research linking brain fog with inflammation. I myself am far more social on ibuprofen than the default and I suggest you try this yourself; try taking 400-600mg ibuprofen even when not sick but "not feeling like yourself" and notice the effects.<p>EDIT:
Reading the article further they tried to give sulforaphane to patients and they saw improvements. This compound is believed to have anti-inflammatory and neuro-protective effects ( <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5225737/" rel="nofollow">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5225737/</a> ).
I have a hypothesis that getting sick (and taking the necessary rest to heal) is beneficial to mental health. The current culture of taking a pill and plough on regardless might be a cause of these epidemic spread of depression, etc.