View clinical trials related to Sensory Processing Disorder.
Filter by:This clinical trial examines the efficacy of a Sensory-Adapted Dental Environment (SADE) in reducing anxiety and improving behavioral outcomes in children with sensory processing disorders during routine dental visits. By modifying the dental setting to accommodate sensory sensitivities-such as using dim lighting, noise-canceling headphones, and non-threatening dental tools-the study aims to create a more comfortable dental experience for these children. This research could potentially inform broader pediatric dentistry practices, making dental care more accessible and less distressing for children with sensory sensitivities.
Disturbances in the sense of self and time could play an important role in the development of psychotic symptoms. Previous work has shown that patients have difficulty preparing to process information on the scale of a second, but are abnormally disturbed by slightly asynchronous information on the millisecond scale. In both cases, the anomalies could explain the patients' unusual experience of time. The hypothesis in neurotypical patients is that small delays or asynchronies asynchronies are treated as irrelevant information and ignored and ignored, whereas in patients suffering from schizophrenia they would disrupt the flow of time. This hypothesis is tested with a new visual illusion.
Misophonia, the inability to tolerate certain repetitive distressing sounds that are common, is gaining, recognition as an impairing condition. It is not a well-understood condition and there are no known treatments. The purpose of this study is to test a new misophonia intervention that uses emotion regulation strategies and different types of brain stimulation on misophonic distress. This study will examine changes in brain activity during presentation and regulation of misophonic versus distressing sounds. The study team plans to alter activity in a key area of the brain responsible for emotion regulation circuitry over 4 sessions with the goal to test if this intervention helps misophonic distress. Sixty adult participants with moderate to severe misophonia will be recruited and taught an emotion regulation skill and randomly assigned to receive one of two types of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS). The study includes 9-10 visits: the remote screening visit(s), the initial MRI, the four neurostimulation sessions, the follow-up MRI, and two additional remote 1- and 3-month follow-up visits.
Breast cancer related lymphedema (BCRL) is due to its chronicity and impact an extremely dreaded complication after breast cancer treatment. The prevalence rate of objective arm and trunk/ breast BCRL is declining due to the major shift into the treatment approach of breast cancer. However, the prevalence rate of subjective arm and trunk/ breast BCRL is much higher than that of objective BCRL. Subjective BCRL is defined as the diagnosis of BCRL based on the patient's sensation of a difference in size at the arm and/or trunk without any objectively measurable swelling. At this moment, it is not clear how many breast cancer patients experience subjective arm or trunk/breast BCRL and what the underlying mechanisms may be. Therefore, the investigators hypothesize that four mechanisms might be associated with the presence and the severity of subjective arm or trunk/breast BCRL, including sensory processing problems (1. nociceptive and/or 2. neuropathic and/or 3. central) and the presence of disturbed lymphatic transport without clinical manifestation (4. subclinical BCRL). The investigators will set up a prospective longitudinal study with breast cancer patients to determine the prevalence of subjective and objective arm or trunk/ breast BCRL at 1, 6. and 12 month(s) post-surgery and the transitions between the different types of BCRL and to compare the amount of swelling at arm or trunk/ breast, the presence or severity of subclinical BCRL and peripheral and central sensory processing problems between patients with different types of BCRL. In addition, the present study will be undertaken to determine the contributing factors to the severity of subjective arm or trunk/ breast BCRL within the group of patients with subjective BCRL at different time-points after surgery (at 1, 6. and 12 month(s) post-surgery).
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is one of the most common developmental disabilities and often people with ASD have sensory processing disorders. These sensory processing disorders are often associated with problem behaviors and, more recently, have been connected to anxiety disorders in people with ASD. While it has been suggested that sensory processing responses in ASD could be malleable, current treatment strategies for sensory processing disorders in ASD have inconsistent results or lack large-sample sized data. This investigation will explore changes in neurophysiological activity in people with ASD and neurotypical peers after they are exposed to an unpleasant visual stimulus through a virtual reality systematic desensitization protocol. 30 people with ASD and 30 neurotypical people between the ages 7 - 35 will be recruited. The study have, 1) a practice magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) visit with questionnaires, 2) a per-exposure MRI with structural and functional MRI collections, 3) a virtual reality systematic desensitization session where we will record the participant's physiological response using an Emotibit device, and 4) a post-exposure MRI session with structural and functional MRI collections. This investigation aims to quantify changes in neurophysiological responses in order to determine the effect of systematic desensitization.
To assess sensory processing anomalies in neurotypical children, children with autism spectrum disorder, and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, particularly within the vibrotactile and auditory sensory modalities.
In the study, sensory processing skills of 1-year-old preterm and term children will be evaluated. The relationship between sensory processing skills and gross and fine motor development will be investigated.
This clinical trial aims to develop parent-child interaction strategy coaching and sensory processing strategy coaching via Telehealth and examine the feasibility and efficacy of the interventions in young children with autism spectrum disorder who have sensory processing disorder. In the first experiment, the investigators will apply a single-subject research design and one-group pre-post test design to explore the feasibility of the coaching interventions. In the second experiment, RCT design will be used to examine the effectiveness of parent coaching. Sixty-five children with ASD and their parents will be randomly assigned to the intervention or control group. The intervention group will receive weekly parent-child interaction and sensory processing strategy coaching for 12 weeks. The control group will be provided with weekly self-learning materials and group discussion session for 12 weeks. Additionally, the follow-up test will be administered three months after the intervention.
To explore the role of sensory modulation dysfunction (SMD) (i.e., a neurodevelopmental state altering the sensory perception, severely interfering with daily function) as a risk factor for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), its co-occurring pain, and impeded cognitive functions, following exposure to combat trauma.
This study aims to evaluate the sensory processing processes of elderly adults who have undergone fall-related hip fracture surgery in the last 6 months, according to different patterns, and to examine the relationship between physical performance, fall risk, fear of falling, and depression parameters that may be related to sensory processing.