Back in 1949, someone designated May as Mental Health Awareness Month. As such, I’m going to spend the next four weeks discussing different issues that fall into this category. First up, misophonia — ...

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 ...

Misophonia, a little-known syndrome, is characterized by strong negative emotional reactions to certain sounds or visual cues. By Melinda Wenner Moyer I’m a fairly calm person, but one thing that ...

Shortly after her parents’ divorce at 13 years old, any time Lindsey Baatz would hear a person chewing gum or a speaker playing music with heavy bass, she bubbled with rage, disgust and panic. Sixteen ...

Q Ever since I was little, I have absolutely hated the sound of other people chewing. Whenever I try to explain this to someone, they think I’m overreacting or even making it up. Is this something you ...

I'm a fairly calm person, but one thing that launches me into a fit of rage is the sound of my husband chewing. I can't say whether his chewing differs in a demonstrable way from other people's ...