Sensory stimulation is the input and sensation you receive when one or more of your senses is activated. This type of stimulation is important for infant development and can be used to improve the ...

The field of functional and fortified foods is rapidly expanding as consumers seek products that offer health benefits beyond basic nutrition. However, ...

Sensory deprivation is associated with striking crossmodal neuroplastic changes in the brain. Following sensory deprivation (for example, blindness or deafness), there is functional recruitment of ...

A few days ago, a client asked me a question I've heard at least once a week for the past year. Her three-year-old daughter, who is currently in occupational therapy for issues around sensory ...

Kanner, in his ground-breaking “Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact” (1943), described numerous examples of atypical sensory processing in his case studies of autistic children, as well as how ...

If you’re a parent, you know the looks. The looks you get when your child is acting out in public — causing a scene over candy at the grocery store or wailing over a toy in the mall. But here’s the ...

A new study published in the Journal of Psychiatric Research suggests that individuals with misophonia experience sensory ...