Sensory overload is often about uncertainty and how long the brain has to stay engaged—especially in autism and ADHD.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The brains of autistic children react to sounds a fraction of a second slower than those of normal children, which may help explain the communication problems associated with ...

The runaway hit hockey romance gives us a different kind of autistic character, one created by an author and an actor with ...

In the first study of its kind, new research finds what children with autism see doesn't quite match up to what they hear. Think of it like watching a movie that’s badly dubbed. (Via Vanderbilt) ...

At Seattle Children's Center for Integrated Brain Research, Dr. John Welsh studies how the autistic brain processes sound. This is a wide open area of research and there is merit in thinking about a ...

In the first study of its kind, researchers at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia used neuroimaging to examine auditory processing in children with nonverbal autism. The study, published in ...