dr. manny alvarez and senior managing editor of fox news health.com and dr. 're the father of a child who is on the autism spectrum. as you hear the reports about possible asperger's, what are your thoughts? >> listen, the autism spectrum is a very complex group of different ailments, but in no way does it have an evil component to it. most children with autism have sweet, loving children and asperger's in particular, you have high functioning individuals, very productive. yes, they have struggles with socializing, with communicating, they're normally intelligent and in many of times even the diagnosis is they're for the community. you know, we have to separate two things here we have aids in the autism spectrum. if they're not taken care of, if they're in the in a loving atmosphere, sometimes they're exposed to ugliness and cope with it in a different way, but sometimes with autism because they're a little behind in the communication skills, they're not able to talk about the ugliness, to me, it's more the environment, it's, you know, how they were raised, ho

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dr. manny alvarez, senior managing editor for foxnewshealth.com and a member of our fox news medical a-teammanny, i'm so guilty of this. why is it a problem? >> what are you guilty of? jenna: no, leaving all the lights on at night and falling fast asleep. my husband says i have to go around turning off all the lights so. >> well, you know, look, we know lights affect our moods. we talk about seasonal effective disorder. sometimes in the wintertime in the northeast you want to have certain types of light during the day. however, a lot of folks with all the electronics that we have and somehow they get into this habit of, you know, dimming the lights but really not turning them off. ultimately what happens is there are cells in your retina at that really don't shut down, that creates a chemical reaction in your brain. in animal studies, very well done by the way, indeed there was alteration in their mood and signs of depression and anxiety. jenna: dr. manny, if i could, it was interesting with mice. it didn't disrupt the sleep. not like the mice kept waking up. but made them depressed and eas