Psychologists and researchers know that developing a scale to diagnose a newly proposed disorder is not an easy task! Rather, it is an arduous process that includes extensive validation and ...

Are you not a fan of noisy chewers? Is living with loud eaters your own personal version of hell? Your annoyance could be affecting you beyond your enjoyment at dinner table. A new study on how ...

(Daniel Day/The Image Bank/Getty Images) As many as one in five of us have misophonia, a severe reaction to everyday sounds ...

Hearing involves more than just the ears – it’s intimately connected to how we think and feel. A recent study has shed light on the possible links between hearing, emotion, and cognition by ...

A new study reveals the motor basis for misophonia, a condition that causes exceptionally negative responses to sounds such as chewing, providing an insight into new potential treatments. Sitting down ...

Misophonia affects daily life and can make you withdraw socially from triggering sounds. Cognitive behavioral therapy and tinnitus retraining therapy may change your responses to triggering sounds. A ...

Misophonia is a condition that involves strong emotional reactions to common sounds such as chewing or breathing. Hearing these sounds may trigger symptoms of anxiety. It is not unusual to experience ...

Around 18% of the people in our study were likely to have misophonia. silverkblackstock/ Shutterstock Many of us have sounds that we find to be annoying. But for some people, certain sounds actually ...

Do certain daily sounds trigger an over-the-top emotional reaction, but yet don’t seem to bother anyone else? This is the case with misophonia-- a strong dislike or hatred of specific sounds.