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 ...

An autistic creator discusses his strong sensitivity to certain sounds associated with eating. He describes how chewing ...

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.

If the sounds of chewing, crunching, slurping, yawning, pen clicking, tapping, water dripping, sniffling, whistling and breathing make you angry or even panicked, you may have misophonia. The term, ...

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 ...

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 ...

As a teen, Jaweria Syed spent countless hours every day after school lying on her bed with her eyes closed, imagining herself onstage as a backup dancer for Drake, Nicki Minaj and other hip-hop ...

The letter writer’s 6-year-old immediately gets upset at her younger sister’s chewing sounds. However, she’s fine with everyone else’s chewing. Dear Meghan: My 6-year-old daughter can’t tolerate the ...