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 ...

We are in sound overload, even when we are not consciously aware of it. Those with misophonia may be casualties of the ...

Whether or not avoidance is a maladaptive coping mechanism is something that psychiatrists and psychologists debate. In the view of some authors, avoidance is a maladaptive behavior because it can ...

Medically reviewed by Dakari Quimby, PhD Misophonia affects daily life and can make you withdraw socially from triggering sounds.Cognitive behavioral therapy and tinnitus retraining therapy may change ...

Previous studies investigating misophonia have shown connections between the auditory cortex and orofacial motor control areas in the brain in people with sound aversion. In a new study, scientists ...

Misophonia is a sound sensitivity disorder that causes extreme reactions to specific everyday noises and makes people feel strongly about them. These noises are generally ordinary and not offensive to ...

Shortly after her parents’ divorce at 13 years old, any time Lindsey Baatz would hear a person chewing gum or a speaker playing music with heavy bass, she bubbled with rage, disgust and panic. Sixteen ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

Columbia, Missouri, Oct. 14, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Misophonia International, an organization dedicated to empowering sufferers and families affected by the disorder misophonia, announces the launch ...

The click of a pen, the chew of someone’s gum or the ticking of a clock. For most people, these are background noises, for others — they’re unbearable. That’s life with misophonia, a condition where ...

Helen E Nuttall receives funding from UKRI, the Vivensa Foundation, North West Cancer Research, and Rosemere Cancer Foundation. Hearing involves more than just the ears – it’s intimately connected to ...