Research
Science: How Stress Controls Sensory Behaviors
To emphasize the significant relationship between stress, sensory and behavioral problems I decided to provide a short list of published studies that prove the scientific connection. To understand how adversely stress influences our bodies is clearly a wake-up call for any therapist or mother wishing to understand the root causes of sensory disorders. It’s all about stress!
Anxiety disorders: Stressful Events Cause Panic Symptoms to Increase Over Time. (J Abnorm Psychol 2010)
Reduced Brain Functioning: White Matter Integrity Is Related to Cognitive Instability: (The Journal of Neuroscience, 2011)
Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Diagnosis: An Activation-Executive Model: (Front Psychol, 2017)
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and the science of social work: Clinical Social Work Journal, 2017)
Eating disorders: Stress response and binge eating disorder (Appetite,2006)
Mood disorders: The Effects of Psychological Stress on Depression. (Curr Neuropharmacol, 2015)
Schizophrenia: Heart rate variability response to mental arithmetic stress in patients with schizophrenia: (Schizophrenia Research, 2007)
Neurodevelopmental disorder: Antenatal maternal stress and long term effects on child neurodevelopment: how and why? (The Journal of Child Psychology and Physiatry, 2007)
Sensory defensiveness: Behavioral and Autonomic Regulation of Response to Sensory Stimuli among Children: (A Systematic Review of Relationship and Methodology. BioMed Research International, 2017)
Behavioral disorders: Stress and Health: Psychological, Behavioral, and Biological Determinants. (Annu Rev Clin Psychol, 2005)
Social problems: Brain on stress: How the social environment gets under the skin. (PNAS, 2012)
Learning and attention deficits. Heart Rate Variability in Children with Attention-deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: (Ann Neurosci, 2016)
Emotional problems: Considerations in the assessment of Heart Rate Variability in biobehavioral research. (Front. Psychol, 2014)
The following are peer-reviewed studies that have been recently published. Please click on the links to view the research:
The Successful Treatment of Chronic Pain Using Microcurrent Point Stimulation Applied to Scars