Neacsiu Andrada D, Szymkiewicz Victoria, Galla Jeffrey T, Li Brenden, Kulkarni Yashaswini, Spector Cade W
Duke Center for Misophonia and Emotion Regulation, Duke Brain Stimulation Research Center, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States.
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States.
Front Neurosci. 2022 Jul 25;16:893903. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2022.893903. eCollection 2022.
Decreased tolerance in response to specific every-day sounds (misophonia) is a serious, debilitating disorder that is gaining rapid recognition within the mental health community. Emerging research findings suggest that misophonia may have a unique neural signature. Specifically, when examining responses to misophonic trigger sounds, differences emerge at a physiological and neural level from potentially overlapping psychopathologies. While these findings are preliminary and in need of replication, they support the hypothesis that misophonia is a unique disorder. In this theoretical paper, we begin by reviewing the candidate networks that may be at play in this complex disorder (e.g., regulatory, sensory, and auditory). We then summarize current neuroimaging findings in misophonia and present areas of overlap and divergence from other mental health disorders that are hypothesized to co-occur with misophonia (e.g., obsessive compulsive disorder). Future studies needed to further our understanding of the neuroscience of misophonia will also be discussed. Next, we introduce the potential of neurostimulation as a tool to treat neural dysfunction in misophonia. We describe how neurostimulation research has led to novel interventions in psychiatric disorders, targeting regions that may also be relevant to misophonia. The paper is concluded by presenting several options for how neurostimulation interventions for misophonia could be crafted.
对特定日常声音的耐受性降低(恐音症)是一种严重的、使人衰弱的疾病,正在心理健康领域迅速得到认可。新出现的研究结果表明,恐音症可能有独特的神经特征。具体而言,在检查对恐音触发声音的反应时,生理和神经层面会出现与潜在重叠的精神病理学不同的差异。虽然这些发现是初步的,需要重复验证,但它们支持了恐音症是一种独特疾病的假设。在这篇理论性论文中,我们首先回顾了可能在这种复杂疾病中起作用的候选网络(例如调节、感觉和听觉网络)。然后,我们总结了目前恐音症的神经影像学研究结果,并展示了与假设与恐音症同时出现的其他心理健康障碍(例如强迫症)的重叠和差异领域。还将讨论进一步理解恐音症神经科学所需的未来研究。接下来,我们介绍神经刺激作为治疗恐音症神经功能障碍工具的潜力。我们描述了神经刺激研究如何导致针对可能与恐音症相关区域的精神疾病新干预措施。本文最后提出了几种如何制定恐音症神经刺激干预措施的选择。