Breakthrough Misophonia Study by Dr. Sukhbinder Kumar provides strong evidence that Misophonia is a ‘real disorder’. Jennifer Jo Brout, PsyD and Michael Mannino, PhD candidate Dr. Sukhbinder Kumar, and his team from the Institute of Neuroscience at Newcastle University and the Wellcome Centre for NeuroImaging at University College London (UCL) published a groundbreaking Misophonia study,…
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The human brain is a complex system, consisting of around 80 billion neurons and around 1000-10000 connections between each of those neurons. Enormous complexity, so much, in fact, that the brain has trouble even fathoming its very own complexity! There are even more glial cells in the brain that aid and support the neurons, and…
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Misophonia and work place accommodations is a significantly important conversation. Most of us spend the majority of our day in the workplace. Whether you work in an office, a factory or retail, or go to school, you are most likely faced with hundreds of triggers on a daily basis. Just as all Misophonia sufferers have…
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Almost every article about the origin of misophonia begins like this: “Misophonia, which means ‘hatred of sound” was termed by Jastreboff and Jastreboff in 2001.” After this cursory mention of the Jastreboff’s and their role in naming misophonia, academic authors often jump to their own interpretations about the disorder. This leaves readers wondering why these two esteemed doctors at…
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Is there a relationship between Misophonia and Auditory Processing Disorder? 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 hyperacusis to name a few. However, nobody has studied, or mentioned in the literature, the potential overlap of Auditory Processing Disorder and Misophonia. Back…
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Silence soothes my soul, it calms me down when my senses are heightened. I love to be alone with my own thoughts and no one to distract me with trigger sounds or movements. Taking in deep breaths of positive thoughts, exhaling all of the negative as I fall into a state of relaxation. I suffer…
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This is my third year as a college student at San Diego State University. Throughout the past years, I found myself dreading walking into a class, wondering if my professor’s “s” sounds would trigger me. Because “s” sounds are my worst trigger, if my professor did trigger me, it was difficult to pay attention. I…
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LeDoux Lab Findings (January 2017) One of the working theories related to mechanisms underlying misophonia is that auditory stimuli may be misinterpreted by the brain as dangerous, or threatening. As such, the brain responds as it would if it were actually in danger. When we are in danger, our freeze/fight/flight system[i] is set off.…
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Sound Sensitivity and Auditory Gating Study Marina Kliuchko of the Cognitive Brain Research Unit at the Institute of Behavioural Sciences (University of Helsinki, Findland) and colleagues sought to better understand and more specifically measure the neuralmechanisms related to noise sensitivity (NS). In their study noise sensitivity is described as both physiological and psychological states that increase an individual’s reactivity to…
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This item is small and fits into any decor. It has a variety of frequencies and volumes for covering up sounds. It helps me to relax.
