What causes misophonia?
We aren’t sure what ultimately causes misophonia, yet.
Several recent studies, linked below, have shown that the brains of people who experience misophonia process sensory input in an atypical manner. However, there is no indication of why this unusual processing occurs in the first place.
Misophonia research is ongoing and new studies are being published frequently. There is great interest in learning what happens in our brains to create the misophonic reaction to common sounds and other activators. In the meantime, misophones can manage and thrive in their daily lives with a variety of coping skills, including effective communication, emotion regulation, assistive tools such as earplugs and white noise machines, and more.
Read More:
Neural evidence for non-orofacial triggers in mild misophonia [August 2022] Heather A. Hansen, Patricia Stefancin, Andrew B. Leber, and Zeynep M. Saygin [Frontiers in Neuroscience] soQuiet.org
The motor basis for misophonia [May 2021] by Sukhbinder Kumar, Pradeep Dheerendra, Mercede Erfanian, Ester Benzaquén, William Sedley, Phillip E. Gander, Meher Lad, Doris E. Bamiou and Timothy D. Griffiths [Journal of Neuroscience] soQ