Everyone has that one sound that makes their skin crawl. Maybe it is a colleague who keeps clicking a pen during a meeting, or someone chewing loudly beside you on a quiet train. These everyday noises ...

Researchers for the first time have identified the parts of the brain involved in a less-commonly studied trigger of misophonia, a condition associated with an extreme aversion to certain sounds. The ...

If you feel irrationally angry or upset at certain sounds, particularly the noises that result when someone chews with their mouth open, you may have misophonia. Though the hypersensitivity to these ...

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 ...

Wonder why you hate the sound of someone chewing his food loudly or breathing heavily? It's all in your head - literally. Research from England's Newcastle University uncovered why some people suffer ...

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 ...

A California man says he hasn’t been able to speak to his family in four years because small noises — like the sound of chewing and throat clearing — makes him “fly into a rage.” Derrol Murphy, 41, ...