Earlier this week, there was an article in The Boston Globe about sensory processing disorder. It stated that a group of researchers, families, and occupational therapists is aggressively lobbying to ...

This documentary is both an exploration and personal account of Sensory Processing Disorder. The experts guided me to a greater understanding of my own affliction. SPD, as it's abbreviated, is ...

Sensory processing disorder—also known as SPD or sensory integration disorder—is a term describing a collection of challenges that occur when the senses fail to respond properly to the outside world.

Robot perception and cognition often rely on the integration of information from multiple sensory modalities, such as vision, ...

A decade ago, at age 55, Don Lewis suffered a stroke in his sleep. When he woke up, he couldn’t move his left arm or leg. Lewis’ neighbor realized his truck hadn’t moved in two days and called 911 for ...

Proprioception – our sense of our body in relation to the world – how it develops and what happens when problems arise. By Anne O’Connor and Dr Kath Dickinson Proprioception is a long word for ...

Proprioception is the imperceptible and invisible sense, often referred to as the unconscious sixth sense. It relies on mechanosensory neurons located within muscles, tendons and joints and, as such, ...

Changes in sensory function that have been described in patients with Parkinson disease (PD) can be either 'pure' disorders of conscious perception such as elevations in sensory threshold, or ...

Many modern prosthetic limbs are so intricate that they seem like something from the sci-fi cyborg realm. Unfortunately, to the wearer these marvels still feel like lumps of dead metal and plastic.