I was sitting on a quiet train. The car was nearly empty. Just the low hum of the tracks and a man across the aisle ...

Does the sound of someone munching on carrots drive you up the wall? You're not alone and you may be surprised there's a word ...

For Jeffrey Gould, the feelings would often arise at the dinner table. Surrounded by people eating their meals, drinking their drinks; he'd often get these feelings of rage, panic and utter disgust.

If you feel irrationally angry or upset at certain sounds, particularly the noises that result when someone chews with their mouth open, you may have misophonia. Though the hypersensitivity to these ...

To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. Research suggests that people with misophonia — the condition defined by intense emotional and physiological ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Jake Eaton was a teenager, he was driven to the brink of insanity by the way his father's jaw popped when the family was at the dinner table. Eaton didn't know it at the time, but has a condition ...

Are there certain sounds that really drive you crazy? Beyond mere frustration or annoyance, sounds that trigger uncontrollable feelings of anger and disgust? If so then you quite possibly suffer from ...

Researchers for the first time have identified the parts of the brain involved in a less-commonly studied trigger of misophonia, a condition associated with an extreme aversion to certain sounds.

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