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The white-matter wiring that slowed sound processing and upended diagnosis

A seven-year-old’s fire drill panic and earplugs expose a debate over sensory processing disorder and what brain wiring might prove.

The white-matter wiring that slowed sound processing and upended diagnosis

In this episode, we follow families, clinicians, and researchers around a single child’s unbearably loud fire drill to trace decades of theory, studies, and clinical practice about sensory processing. We ask how brain measurements and white-matter findings came to challenge medical definitions and clinical care.

Person: Anna Jean Ayres

Date: 1972

Event: six factor-analytic studies on…

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