Regulation by itself has a multitude of definitions.
Context to the term is required to understand what kinds of management and limitations are being administered to the topic being regulated. The term by itself can vary from situation to situation.
In short, I understand 'regulation' to refer to management and limitation of [subject/context].
@theautisticcoach@actuallyautistic Still trying to define dysregulation. To me, right now, it means emotional chaos. I feel frustrated, like crying, restless... all without a real target for the emotions. They can however easily find a target.
Apparently in an autistic way because I am feeling a strong urge to type a report here regarding different contexts for the word regulation to mean different phenomena.
Assuming you mean "emotional" regulation, I understand it to be the brain's ability to manage its different hormones, signals and everything that it does to create emotions in a way that they won't go out of whack one way or the other. This usually manifests as you feeling emotions too strongly or too weakly, compared to the general consensus between majority of people.
Sensory regulation is the same thing but for sensory responses. The nervous system works with a lot of balancing acts. When some positive feedback pathway fires, meaning say, "pain creating", a negative pathway also fires with "pain inhibiting" effect. If one or both of these two don't work as it should, you can experience too much or too little pain in response to stimuli, regardless of how much pain any particular stimulus warrants.
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