We believe that the symptoms are best explained within the discipline of psychiatry due to pronounced mental suffering of patients, the cognitive (obsessive) and affective nature of the symptoms following conditioning, the behavioral coping strategies such as avoidance, and treatment options which are in the realm of psychiatric discipline. The paper has been viewed over 155.000 times in the past 5 years. In 2013, we were the first to define diagnostic criteria for misophonia as a psychiatric disorder 1. Sufferers usually avoid misophonic situations or endure them with intense discomfort, which leads to profound functional impairment.
In particular, sounds like chewing, lip smacking or breathing may cause intense anger and physical arousal 2, 3. Misophonia is a condition in which individuals experience intense anger and disgust when they are confronted with sounds made by other human beings 1. Our results demonstrate that audiovisual stimuli trigger anger and physiological arousal in patients with misophonia, associated with activation of the auditory cortex and salience network. The neuroimaging data revealed increased activation of the right insula, right anterior cingulate cortex and right superior temporal cortex during viewing of the misophonic video clips compared to neutral clips.
Emotional changes were associated with increases in heart rate. Misophonic cues elicited anger, disgust and sadness in patients compared to controls. Electrocardiography was recorded to determine physiological changes and self-report measures were used to assess emotional changes. lip smacking and loud breathing), aversive cues (violent or disgusting clips from movies), and neutral cues (video clips of e.g. Participants were presented with three different conditions, misophonia related cues (video clips with e.g. 21 patients with misophonia and 23 matched healthy controls were recruited at the psychiatry department of the Amsterdam UMC.
We exposed patients with symptom provoking audiovisual stimuli to investigate brain activity of emotional responses. Misophonia is characterized by intense rage and disgust provoked by hearing specific human sounds resulting in social isolation due to avoidance.
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