New Discovery in Sensory Processing Disorders in Kids

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• SPD Children struggle with hypersensitivity to sound, sight and touch
• New study using DTI shows altered brain connectivity pathways for children with sensory processing disorder 
• Study included 81 Children, 40 (32 males, 8 females) with SPD and 41 (28 males, 13 female) without 
• Diffusion tensor imaging could help distinguish SPD from ASD/ADHD
• In future DTI may help identify predictive SPD bio-markers for the medical field
• Published in the Journal Frontiers in Neuroanatomy