Too much sensory input can overstimulate your brain and cause emotional distress or shutdown. Sensory overload can happen with anxiety disorders, autism, and ADHD, but anyone can experience it. Taking ...

Sensory overload is when your five senses — sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste — take in more information than your brain can process. When your brain is overwhelmed by this input, it enters ...

Sensory processing differences refer to atypical ways in which the brain receives, organizes, and responds to sensory inputs such as sound, touch, light, movement ...

After more than two years of planning and production, Sensodyne’s documentary highlighting sensory sensitivities and oral health equity has been released. The Haleon brand debuted its Sensory Overload ...

Both autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are neuropsychiatric conditions involving differences in brain structure and chemistry. There are some ...

Many people hear the word stims and picture obvious movements, yet a wide range of everyday actions fall into the same category. These behaviors help the nervous system regulate attention, soften ...

A recent study published in the Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders investigated why some children are extremely sensitive to noises, lights, or touch (known as sensory over-responsivity or ...

An autistic meltdown is an intense reaction to sensory or emotional overload in autistic people. When an autistic person becomes overstimulated or unable to cope with their environment, they may ...

Here’s another in my series of daily tidbits from Poynter’s newly released Eyetrack III research. For one (non-scientific) part of the study, we turned on the eyetracker as our 46 test subjects viewed ...

Sensory overload occurs when the brain becomes overwhelmed by the volume or nature of the sensory inputs it receives. Sensory inputs can be any stimuli that enter through one of the sensory modalities ...