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sensory sensitivity as a the bridge between Misophonia and other conditions

Andermane et al. (2023), modeling data from 419 online participants across non-misophonic, moderate, and severe misophonia in a symptom network built from the Sussex Misophonia Scale (SMS), Glasgow Sensory Questionnaire (GSQ), Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ), Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory (OCI), Anxiety Sensitivity Index (ASI-3), and other clinical measures, found that sensory sensitivity as indexed by the GSQ occupied a central position on all centrality measures and remained central even when auditory items were removed. They identified sensory sensitivity as the main bridge linking misophonia to other clinical symptoms, noting that this includes but is not limited to auditory sensitivity and that the misophonia Pain subscale carried the strongest connection outward. The authors concluded that sensory sensitivity is the central trait connecting the misophonic experience to the broader profile of sensory and clinical traits, though they cautioned that the network is not a causal model (Andermane et al., 2023b).