Anger, disgust and fear in response to sounds KU Leuven
Hyperacusis is the condition in which patients experience an intolerance of general everyday sounds. In misophonia, patients experience involuntary overwhelming aggressive agitation (commonly anger, irritation or disgust) towards a person producing sounds associated with eating (e.g. crunching, chewing, slurping, swallowing), and/or coughing, tapping, ticking, breathing, and other human- but not animal-generated sounds. Both conditions are ...