Specificity of Affective Responses in Misophonia Depends on Trigger Identification.

ABSTRACT: Individuals with misophonia, a disorder involving extreme sound sensitivity, report significant anger, disgust, and anxiety in response to select but usually common sounds. While estimates of prevalence within certain populations such as college students have approached 20%, it is currently unknown what percentage of people experience misophonic responses to such "trigger" sounds. Furthermore, there is little understanding of the fundamental processes involved. In this study, we aimed to characterize the distribution of misophonic symptoms in a general population, as well as clarify whether the aversive emotional responses to trigger sounds are partly caused by acoustic salience of the sound itself, or by recognition of the sound. Using multi-talker babble as masking noise to decrease part

SUBMITTER: Savard MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9179422 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature