Our paper is now out! The motor basis for #misophonia #jneurosci jneurosci.org/content/early/…

Simplified explanation of the findings in our recent work on misophonia jneurosci.org/content/early/… Mercede Erfanian Auditory Cognition Group Meher Lad Newcastle University NCL Neuroscience @NCL_medresearch Milken Institute

A postdoc position is available at University of Iowa to take forward our work on misophonia. Someone with experience in fMRI data analysis would best fit the job. For more details, please see: jobs.uiowa.edu/postdoc/view/3… Feel free to get in touch if you have any further query.

We found that in #epilepsy patients, when seizures spread to a focal subregion of the human #amygdala, apnea is evoked & can persist for minutes after the seizures ends! Patients are unaware! This may lead to sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (#SUDEP). insight.jci.org/articles/view/…

A Social Cognition Perspective on Misophonia osf.io/preprints/psya… In this pre-print, we outline limitations of the prevailing auditory framework and argue for a social cognition framework to understand misophonia. Thanks to co-authors Joel I Berger and Phillip Gander.

Great write-up and commentary Neurology Today: bit.ly/3MLO7vX on our latest publication JCI insight - we are one step closer to identifying epilepsy patients at high risk for #SUDEP and a preventative treatment for SUDEP Iowa Neuroscience Institute University of Iowa UI Health Care Stead Family Children's Hospital CURE Epilepsy

Honoured to be a part of an excellent theme issue published by Royal Society Publishing. Sukhbinder Kumar and I wrote a paper placing misophonia within a social cognition framework: doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2…; there's an excellent summary of the entire series here: doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2…

We consider misophonia within a social perception and cognition framework, one which accounts for the context in which sounds are perceived and the emotional reaction that is triggered. We highlight a need to go beyond thinking of misophonia as a disorder of auditory processing.

We believe that thinking of misophonia this way will give us a better understanding of the underlying neural mechanisms and enable development of novel treatments. Many thanks to Hirohito Kondo, Brian Moore and Giulia Poerio for organising this theme and inviting us to submit.