UK Researchers Found The Mystery Behind "Misophonia"

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Everyone has their own way of adverse reaction to a particular thing or noise. Some of there are people who hate the sound of someone clipping nails or sound of someone munching/eating. This condition is known to be called as "misophonia" that has a common origin in the brain.

Researchers and scientist have been confused whether this condition, misophonia, constitutes to a serious medical disorder. However recently, new research made by a team at the U.K.'s Newcastle University has been persistent in discovering the root of this condition and found out that those people who suffer misophonia have a distinction in their brain's frontal lobe to non-sufferers.

In Time article, scientists used an MRI to observe the brain activity of people with and without misophonia while they are listening to a different range of sound. Sounds that were categorized into neutral sounds, unpleasant and trigger sounds. In this case, those people who are suffering from misophonia will have a different result from non-sufferer when trigger sounds are presented.

Dr. Sukhbinder Kumar, from the Institute of Neuroscience at Newcastle University and the Wellcome Centre for NeuroImaging at University College London, explained to BBC News that those people who are experiencing misophonia are just overdriven with trigger sound specifically, but not the other two sounds. "The reaction is anger mostly, it's not disgust, the dominating emotion is the anger - it looks like a normal response, but then it is going into overdrive," added Dr. Kumar.

Olana Tansley-Hanson, a victim of misophonia, from Kent shared her experience with BBC News, "I feel there's a threat and get the urge to lash out - it's the fight or flight response," However,  the study assured that to lower the lever of targeted electricity passed through in human skull will eventually adjust the brain function.