ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2018
The functional highly sensitive brain: a review of the brain circuits underlying sensory processing sensitivity and seemingly related disorders.
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- The relationship between sensory processing sensitivity trait and emotional and behavioral problems among Egyptian children.BMC pediatrics · 2026Article
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- The aftermath of trauma on resting state source-level MEG microstate dynamics.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2025Article
- Anxious vision: Trait-like visual cortical hyperactivity in trait anxiety.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Predictors of Environmental Sensitivity in Syrian refugee children.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2025Article
- Sensory processing sensitivity and its associations with guilt, shame, self-esteem, and neuroticism.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- The Moderating Role of Sensory Processing Sensitivity in Social Skills Enhancement and Bullying Prevention Among Adolescents.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Adherence to medical recommendations in high-risk pregnancy: dispositional and situational predictors with a focus on emotional reactivity.CNS spectrums · 2025Article
- Trauma and Sensory Systems: Biological Mechanisms Involving the Skin and the 17q21 Gene Cluster.Biological psychiatry · 2025Review
- Sensory processing sensitivity in adult dental patients and its relation to perceived stress, cortisol, and serotonin secretion.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Repeated stress gradually impairs auditory processing and perception.PLoS biology · 2025Article
- The impact of childhood trauma on adolescent depression: the moderating role of sensory processing sensitivity.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Highly sensitive early-onset Alzheimer's disease: a case report.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- The aesthetic experience of the sublime for a group of Highly Sensitive Persons: Maselli's figurative style vs. Rothko's abstract expressionism.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
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- Maternal adjustment in expatriate and non-expatriate contexts: examining the role of sensory processing sensitivity and perceived social support.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Sensory processing sensitivity, anxiety, and short-term heart rate variability in older adults living at high southern latitudes: a brief report.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
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Abstract
During the past decade, research on the biological basis of sensory processing sensitivity (SPS)-a genetically based trait associated with greater sensitivity and responsivity to environmental and social stimuli-has burgeoned. As researchers try to characterize this trait, it is still unclear how SPS is distinct from seemingly related clinical disorders that have overlapping symptoms, such as sensitivity to the environment and hyper-responsiveness to incoming stimuli. Thus, in this review, we compare the neural regions implicated in SPS with those found in fMRI studies of-Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Schizophrenia (SZ) and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) to elucidate the neural markers and cardinal features of SPS versus these seemingly related clinical disorders. We propose that SPS is a stable trait that is characterized by greater empathy, awareness, responsivity and depth of processing to salient stimuli. We conclude that SPS is distinct from ASD, SZ and PTSD in that in response to social and emotional stimuli, SPS differentially engages brain regions involved in reward processing, memory, physiological homeostasis, self-other processing, empathy and awareness. We suggest that this serves species survival via deep integration and memory for environmental and social information that may subserve well-being and cooperation.This article is part of the theme issue 'Diverse perspectives on diversity: multi-disciplinary approaches to taxonomies of individual differences'.
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