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 ...

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 ...

If you walk into work already feeling noise, lights, and office chatter turning up the volume in your mind, the overwhelm is real. Prefer to listen rather than read? Press play below. For ...

A UCSF study using fMRI revealed distinct brain network activity in children with sensory over-responsivity. These children showed less activity in outward brain networks and more in inward networks, ...

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.

The overwhelming hallucinations, euphoria, and dream-like state that are the hallmarks of a lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) trip may stem from the brain going into sensory overload. That’s the ...