The Highly Sensitive Brain

A guide to recognizing the trait of high sensitivity, understand it, manage it, and value it in an overstimulating world with scientifically recognized information and strategies. Approximately one in four people have a highly sensitive brain: they perceive environmental stimuli (what they see, feel, and hear) more deeply, notice and remember more details and are therefore more often tired or frustrated. Highly sensitive people have greater activation of the areas of the brain involved in attention, emotion, and consciousness. This is a normal variation of temperament, not a disorder, and is found in more than 100 animal species, including humans. Differences in insensitivity are explained by both genetic (47%) and environmental factors(53%) such as family, work, school, culture, etc.