A Brief Commentary on the Consensus Definition of Misophonia
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| Background/Purpose | Background- • this is a response to the recent Consensus definition of misophonia from (Swedo et al., 2022) Purpose- • discuses the authors issues with the recent Consensus definition of misophonia from (Swedo et al., 2022) Purpose- |
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| Relevance:: | possible issues with the Swedo definition of Misophonia |
Notes
key terms and concepts
my questions
my comments
- some of Brouts comments ( see contradictory Statements, ) are pretty nitpicky and not all that usefule
misc. notes
- Auditory gating- “the brain’s capacity to selectively regulate sensitivity to auditory sensory stimuli, and is measured through event-related potentials (ERPs) comprised of the P50, N1, and P2 peaks (Brout et al., 2018).“
major issues
contradictory statements
- Authors issue- the author finds Swedo’s claims that triggers are elicited to patterns with meaning to the person and that triggers tend to be orifical sounds of other people to be a contradictions. specifically asking how can triggers be mostly the same if they are personal to the subject?
- my response - I think Brout is misinterpreting what Swedo’s team meant by this. it isn't that triggers are special snowflakes to each misophonic. rather the point is that triggers are not the result of bottom-up acoustic processes. the point is to emphasis the top-down nature of misophonic responses. the fact that Misophonics tend to have similar triggers is not inconsistent with this concept.
the nature of sound and gating
- Swedo left out relevant cross-disciplinary research-
- Brout holds That Swedo left out relevant information from other domains, specifically:
- any work looking at the acoustic features of triggers and there impact on misophonic attention
- research showing relationship between sympathetic nervous system arousal in response to repetitive auditory stimulus.
- studies showing impaired auditory gating for subjects with general sensory processing disorder and ASD.
- research showing abnormal sensory processing as shown by early ERP' component sin sensory cortex.
- Brout holds That Swedo left out relevant information from other domains, specifically:
failure to use a Dimensional approach to defining Misophonia
- Brout thinks Swedo Should have used a dimensional approach, giving the “Research Domain Criteria Matrix (RDoC)” as an example.