Other improvements of cognitive impairment after sepsis have been achieved with some of the treatments known to protect mice against sepsis‐induced death, such as anti‐HMGB‐1 antibodies (Chavan et al, 2012; Gentile & Moldawer, 2014; Stevens et al, 2017) or electroacupuncture (Han et al, 2018). The gene discussed is HMGB1; the disease is Sepsis.