Auditory processing disorder (APD) is when the brain cannot interpret sounds correctly. People may also refer to APD as central auditory processing disorder. People with APD may find it difficult to ...

Perry is a 10-year-old boy who was struggling academically in school, despite having received years of school-based interventional services. He’d been to a neurologist, a developmental pediatrician, a ...

Auditory processing is the term used to describe what happens when your brain recognizes and interprets the sounds around you. Humans hear when energy that we recognize as sound travels through the ...

Auditory processing disorder (APD) in adults can lead to communication problems, poor social skills, depression, and impacts on daily function similar to those experienced by people with hearing loss.

Studies on misophonia have compared the newly termed disorder to Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders, synesthesia, anger management problems, disorders related to impulse control, and ...

After years of research, neuroscientists have discovered a new pathway in the human brain that processes the sounds of language. The findings, reported August 18 in the journal Cell, suggest that ...

A new study reveals that walking enhances the brain’s response to sound, and this effect changes dynamically depending on the ...

A Northwestern University study suggests Mom was right when she insisted you continue music lessons even after it was clear that a professional music career was not in your future. The study is the ...

A newly published study by Northwestern University researchers suggests that Mom was right when she insisted that you continue music lessons -- even after it was clear that a professional music career ...