Social touch is a powerful force in human development, shaping social reward, attachment,
cognitive, communication, and emotional regulation from infancy and throughout life. In this …

The inadequacy of a categorial approach to mental health diagnosis is now well-recognised,
with many authors, diagnostic manuals and funding bodies advocating a dimensional, trans …

Altered sensory processing has been an important feature of the clinical descriptions of
autism spectrum disorder (ASD). There is evidence that sensory dysregulation arises early …

Although sensory processing challenges have been noted since the first clinical descriptions
of autism, it has taken until the release of the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical …

Behavior, perception and cognition are strongly shaped by the synthesis of information
across the different sensory modalities. Such multisensory integration often results in …

Sensory processing abnormalities are among the most common behavioral phenotypes
seen in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), typically characterized by either over-or under …

Sensory abnormalities are commonly recognized as diagnostic criteria in autism spectrum
disorder (ASD), as reported in the last edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of …

Anecdotal reports and empirical evidence suggest that sensory processing issues are a key
feature of autism spectrum conditions. This study set out to investigate whether adults with …

Brains are constantly flooded with sensory information that needs to be filtered at the pre-
attentional level and integrated into endogenous activity in order to allow for detection of …

Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are associated with differences in sensory sensitivity and
affective response to sensory stimuli, the neural basis of which is still largely unknown. We …