Psychophysical measures attempt to capture and compare subjective experiences objectively. In the chemical senses, these techniques have been instrumental in describing relationships between oral sensation and health risk, but they are often used incorrectly to make group comparisons. This chapter reviews contemporary methods of oral sensory assessment, with particular emphasis on suprathreshol...

Sensory integration theory and intervention techniques were originally developed by A. Jean Ayres, PhD, OTR, beginning in the late 1960s. Her pioneering work integrated scientific information from neuroscience, psychology, occupational therapy, and human development in an effort to help explain the relationship among experience, brain development, and function. Ayres’s theory of sensory integra...

Human sensory inputs and motor outputs mutually affect one another. We pursue the idea that a tactile interface can influence human motor outputs by intervening in sensory-motor relationships. This study focuses on the shear deformation of a finger pad while a person traces a line or circle. During these tracing movements, the finger pads were deformed using a tactile interface. The tracing dis...

G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are the major class of sensory proteins and a primary therapeutic target in the pathways to pain and itch. GPCRs are complex signaling machines. Their association with ligands, other receptors, and signaling and regulatory partners induces GPCRs to adopt distinct conformations and to traffic to microdomains within plasma and endosomal membranes. This conforma...

INTRODUCTION: Research on sleep disturbances and sensory processing disorder (SPD) among children with autism spectrum (ASD) has received little attention. Identification of components that cause ASD will guide the therapists to select best intervention for condition. This study aims identify pattern is responsible disturbance children. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A cross-sectional was conducted 55 ...

This article draws on the largest source base ever assembled – some 12 million words of diverse material ranging from letters, through life-writing and to committee minutes investigate public presence those with sensory, physical or mental impairments. Focusing nineteenth century, classic period in which it is argued that impairment came be constructed into ‘disability’ subject medical interven...

BACKGROUND Several lines of evidence suggest that early sensory stimulation and regular family visiting programs are potential nursing interventions to improve the outcomes of head injured comatose patients. However, little is known about the impacts of family involvement in providing sensory stimulation. OBJECTIVES To determine the effects of a sensory stimulation program conducted by nurses...

introduction: hearing loss from birth up to the age of 3 years has a negative effect on speech/language development and results in sensory, cognitive, emotional, and academic defects in adulthood by causing delayed development of communicative-linguistic abilities. the present study was performed in order to assess the effect of early intervention on language development in persian children age...

Achieving perceptual gains in healthy individuals or facilitating rehabilitation in patients is generally considered to require intense training to engage neuronal plasticity mechanisms. Recent work, however, suggested that beneficial outcome similar to training can be effectively acquired by a complementary approach in which the learning occurs in response to mere exposure to repetitive sensor...

Low-dose, low-penetration electron beam (E-beam) irradiation was evaluated for potential use as an antimicrobial intervention on beef carcasses during processing. The objectives of this study were (i) to assess the efficacy of E-beam irradiation to reduce concentrations of Escherichia coli O157:H7 on a large beef surface and (ii) to evaluate the effect of the treatment on the sensory properties...