Last week I learned of a new NY Times article on misophonia that was written by a doctor who has misophonia. (he following is a link to the article, but BE FOREWARNED... They included a video with the online article that starts off with the noise of a person chewing popcorn. When I hunted down the article online to forward to my boss and a few coworkers who knew of my condition, I heard the crunching of popcorn and popped my head over the cubicle wall thinking it was my adjacent coworker. How embarrassed did I feel when I realized the sound was coming through my earbud that was laying next to my keyboard. (Thank goodness I hadn't said anything to my coworker.) The article is here:
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/23/please-stop-making-that-noise/?_r=0
A friend of mine back in Maryland who also suffers from misophonia told me about an article in the Washington Post back in December. She was very upset at the article because one of the audiologists interviewed stated that in his opinion, misophonia is a conditioned response. Unfortunately, when my friend wrote a letter to the Washington Post, it was ignored. Although I am sharing a link to the article below, I also disagree with the premise of the article - especially since the doctor goes on to talk about how "... This impulse has to do with how the brain processes sound."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/misophonia-is-a-newly-identified-condition-for-people-hypersensitive-to-sound/2014/12/01/7c392782-69ba-11e4-a31c-77759fc1eacc_story.html
So many articles like that one focus on the sound aspect of misophonia yet ignore the fact that many misophonia sufferers, like myself, are also triggered by certain visual and tactile sensations as well. I think this is due to the fact that audiologists were the first medical practitioners to acknowledge misophonia as a real condition.
Despite the name "misophonia," I believe the condition extends well beyond the auditory system. Hopefully when the fMRI misophonia study in which I participated last year at a neurology hospital in London is published, medical practitioners beyond audiologists will be willing to invest more research and attention to the misophonia condition as a whole, not just the aural component of it.
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/23/please-stop-making-that-noise/?_r=0
A friend of mine back in Maryland who also suffers from misophonia told me about an article in the Washington Post back in December. She was very upset at the article because one of the audiologists interviewed stated that in his opinion, misophonia is a conditioned response. Unfortunately, when my friend wrote a letter to the Washington Post, it was ignored. Although I am sharing a link to the article below, I also disagree with the premise of the article - especially since the doctor goes on to talk about how "... This impulse has to do with how the brain processes sound."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/misophonia-is-a-newly-identified-condition-for-people-hypersensitive-to-sound/2014/12/01/7c392782-69ba-11e4-a31c-77759fc1eacc_story.html
So many articles like that one focus on the sound aspect of misophonia yet ignore the fact that many misophonia sufferers, like myself, are also triggered by certain visual and tactile sensations as well. I think this is due to the fact that audiologists were the first medical practitioners to acknowledge misophonia as a real condition.
Despite the name "misophonia," I believe the condition extends well beyond the auditory system. Hopefully when the fMRI misophonia study in which I participated last year at a neurology hospital in London is published, medical practitioners beyond audiologists will be willing to invest more research and attention to the misophonia condition as a whole, not just the aural component of it.
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