In the last 20 years, research on individual differences in Environmental Sensitivity (ES) as captured by the ...

For individuals with sensory sensitivity, the threshold for perceiving stimuli may be lower than usual, or their ability to adapt to repeated stimuli may be impaired. They may start avoiding ...

If a person has found that they get much more irritated by certain sounds as they have gotten older, they may notice that they have developed a more introverted personality. The sensitivity they have ...

A UCSF study using fMRI revealed distinct brain network activity in children with sensory over-responsivity. These children showed less activity in outward brain networks and more in inward networks, ...

Supported by a $2 million R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health, the Auerbach Lab at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology will examine how different genes associated ...

Memory problems have long been considered the primary hallmark of dementia, but a team of researchers is now challenging this view. They argue that changes in sensory perception—from vision to balance ...

“I think there is something wrong with his [her] hearing,” is a comment I often hear from parents of children on the spectrum, pertaining to the atypical auditory processing they notice in their loved ...