Misophonia: A scoping review of research

Potgieter, Iskra; MacDonald, Carol; Partridge, Lucy; Cima, Rilana; Sheldrake, Jacqueline; Hoare, Derek J.

doi:10.1002/jclp.22771

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“…In misophonia a seemingly innocuous sound elicits a strongly negative emotion, such as anger, anxiety, discomfort, or disgust, [6,7,[40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48] with an accompanying sympathetic (i.e., fight or flight) response. [42,44,46] Typical triggers are manmade sounds, such as another person eating, breathing, and throat, nose or hand sounds.…”

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How everyday sounds can trigger strong emotions: ASMR, misophonia and the feeling of wellbeing

McGeoch

Rouw

2020

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We propose that synesthetic cross-activation between the primary auditory cortex and the anatomically adjacent insula may help explain two puzzling conditionsautonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) and misophonia-in which quotidian sounds involuntarily trigger strong emotional responses. In ASMR the sounds engender relaxation, while in misophonia they trigger an aversive response. The insula both plays an important role in autonomic nervous system control and integrates multiple interoceptive maps representing the physiological state of the body to substantiate a dynamic representation of emotional wellbeing. We propose that in ASMR crossactivation of the map for affective (sensual) touch leads to an increase in subjective wellbeing and parasympathetic activity. Conversely, in misophonia the effect of the cross-activation is to decrease emotional wellbeing and increase sympathetic activity. Our hypothesis also illuminates the connection between hearing and wellbeing more broadly and helps explain why so many people experience decreased wellbeing from modern urban soundscapes.

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How everyday sounds can trigger strong emotions: ASMR, misophonia and the feeling of wellbeing

McGeoch

Rouw

2020

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“…However, a significant number of individuals with misophonia report that they do not suffer from any additional conditions (Rouw & Erfanian, 2017). More research in this area is needed as there is currently no demonstrable evidence that a relationship exists between misophonia and other conditions (Potgieter et al, 2019).…”

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“…A number of potential treatments for misophonia have been explored, including cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) (Schröder et al, 2017;Bernstein et al, 2013;McGuire et al, 2015), tinnitus retraining therapy (TRT) (Jastreboff & Jastreboff, 2014), counterconditioning (Dozier, 2015), mindfulness and acceptance based approaches (Schneider & Arch, 2017) and pharmacological treatment (Vidal et al, 2017;Tunç et al, 2017). However, in addition to varying levels of effectiveness, there looms a significant problem in that these proposed treatments for misophonia are extremely preliminary and have not yet been validated through rigorous scientific testing (Potgieter et al, 2019).…”

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Context influences how individuals with misophonia respond to sounds

Edelstein

Monk

Ramachandran

et al. 2020

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Misophonia is a newly researched condition in which specific sounds cause an intense, aversive response in individuals, characterized by negative emotions and autonomic arousal. Although virtually any sound can become a misophonic “trigger,” the most common sounds appear to be bodily sounds related to chewing and eating as well as other repetitive sounds. An intriguing aspect of misophonia is the fact that many misophonic individuals report that they are triggered more, or even only, by sounds produced by specific individuals, and less, or not at all, by sounds produced by animals (although there are always exceptions).In general, anecdotal evidence suggests that misophonic triggers involve a combination of sound stimuli and contextual cues. The aversive stimulus is more than just a sound and can be thought of as a Gestalt of features which includes sound as a necessary component as well as additional contextual information. In this study, we explore how contextual information influences misophonic responses to human chewing, as well as sonically similar sounds produced by non-human sources. The current study revealed that the exact same sound can be perceived as being much more or less aversive depending on the contextual information presented alongside the auditory information. The results of this study provide a foundation for potential cognitive based therapies.

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“…Misophonia is most commonly diagnosed through clinical psychological interviews and/or with questionnaires 10 . Schröder et al 3 described what criteria should be present to diagnose misophonia and they suggested the A-MISO-S questionnaire to assess them.…”

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A Psychoacoustic Test for Misophonia Assessment

Enzler

Loriot

Fournier

et al. 2021

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Misophonia is a condition where a strong arousal response is triggered when hearing specific human generated sounds, like chewing, and/or repetitive tapping noises, like pen clicking. It is diagnosed with clinical interviews and questionnaires since no psychoacoustic tools exist to assess its presence. The present study was aimed at developing and testing a new assessment tool for misophonia. The method was inspired by an approach we have recently developed for hyperacusis. It consisted of presenting subjects (n=253) with misophonic, pleasant, and unpleasant sounds in an online experiment. The task was to rate them on a pleasant to unpleasant visual analog scale. Subjects were labeled as misophonics (n=78) or controls (n=55) by using self-report questions and a misophonia questionnaire, the MisoQuest. There was a significant difference between controls and misophonics in the median global rating of misophonic sounds. On the other hand, median global rating of unpleasant, and pleasant sounds did not differ significantly. We selected a subset of the misophonic sounds to form the core discriminant sounds of misophonia (CDSMiso). A metric: the CDS score, was used to quantitatively measure misophonia, both with a global score and with subscores. The latter could specifically quantify aversion towards different sound sources/events, i.e., mouth, breathing/nose, throat, and repetitive sounds. A receiver operating characteristic analysis showed that the method accurately classified subjects with and without misophonia (accuracy = 91 %). The present study suggests that the psychoacoustic test we have developed can be used to assess misophonia reliably and quickly.

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Misophonia: A scoping review of research

Cited by 71 publications

References 56 publications

How everyday sounds can trigger strong emotions: ASMR, misophonia and the feeling of wellbeing

How everyday sounds can trigger strong emotions: ASMR, misophonia and the feeling of wellbeing

Context influences how individuals with misophonia respond to sounds

A Psychoacoustic Test for Misophonia Assessment

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