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In the article conducted by researcher at UC San Francisco on Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD). SPD is defined by WebMD, as a condition in which the brain has trouble receiving and responding to information that comes in through the senses (WebMD, 2014). SPD used to be called sensory integration dysfunction. Children with this condition are often mistaken with discipline problems. Researchers at UC San Francisco found that SPD decreased structural brain #|connections in specific sensory regions different than those found in autism (UCSF, 2014). Autism is a development disorder that affects the brain’s normal development of social and communication skills. Children with SPD or autism, often suffers the same symptoms, including hypersensitivity to sound, sight and touch, poor motor skills and/or are easily distracted. This is one of the main reasons why this disorders goes untreated and is often hard to diagnose. They even suffer from the decrease of eye to eye gazes and the ability to read facial expressions (UCSF, 2014). Since children who have SPD or autism struggle with how to process touch, it may send them into a “fight or flight mode” (University of Virginia, 2012). Our textbook, defines fight or flight #|response, as a response to stress in which the sympathetic nervous system and the endocrine glands prepare the body to fight or flee. It is essential to find the cause of these neural conditions and understand why it occurs.

References: #|University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). (2014, July 30). #|Kids with autism and sensory processing disorders show differences in brain wiring. ScienceDaily. Retrieved August 5, 2014 from [|www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/07/140730140918.htm]

University of Virginia Health System. (2012, December 11). Sensory Processing disorder: Ambiguous but Real. UVA Health System. Retrieved August 5, 2014 from []

WebMD,LLC. (2014) Sensory Processing Disorder. Retrieved August 5, 2014 from [] Wood, Samuel E., Ellen R. Green. Wood, and Denise Roberts. Boyd. //Mastering the World of Psychology//. Fourth ed. Boston: Pearson/Allyn and #|Bacon, 2011. #|Print.

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