Everyday stimulation can disrupt a sensitive child’s emotional world. Here’s how to recognize deep emotional and sensory responsiveness.

Here’s why your heightened emotional sensitivity is not a weakness, no matter what our modern emotionally flattened culture tells you.

Your brain might be wired differently than you think—and those everyday sounds that drive you up the wall are just the tip of ...

In 1997, psychologist Elaine Aron introduced the Highly Sensitive Person Scale, which has been used to measure a trait called sensory-processing sensitivity. Aron categorized people with high ...

The “Relationship between the Temperament Trait of Sensory Processing Sensitivity and Emotional Reactivity” was published in 2016, in the Journal Social Behavior and Personality. The first author is ...

Children and adolescents affected by juvenile fibromyalgia show greater sensitivity to non-painful sensory stimuli, such as ...

Researchers have correlated light and sound sensitivity experienced by some patients with migraine who have heightened connectivity within primary sensory cortices, the pons and the anterior insula ...