> That's the rub. Even if this non-traditional brain model is to be taken at face value, there is a missing variable somewhere, arguably more important; HSV-1,

> That's the rub. Even if this non-traditional brain model is to be taken at face value, there is a missing variable somewhere, arguably more important; HSV-1, at best, would be a contributing factor. Did you completely miss the point of the article and even of the quote you copied. "the latest work addresses [this very criticism you have]"? The article tells us what the missing link is (according to their hypothesis). That's the whole point of it. It's even in the title.