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MedicalJune 18, 2026

Misophonia and Hyperacusis Showed Different fMRI Sound-Processing Patterns

TL;DR: A 2026 study in Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience used task-based functional MRI (fMRI), a brain-scan method that tracks blood-oxygen changes during a task, to show that misophonia and hyperacusis had partly different brain connectivity pa…

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Health & WellnessMay 13, 2026

Early-Life Visceral Stress Sensitized Auditory Brainstem and Altered Cochlear Proteome in Rat IBS Model

TL;DR: A 2026 rat study in Neurobiology of Stress found that early-life visceral stress produced adult IBS-like symptoms alongside auditory brainstem sensitization and cochlear protein changes, giving a mechanistic explanation for sound sensitivity reported by…

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Misophonia and Hyperacusis Showed Different fMRI Sound-Processing Patterns

Early-Life Visceral Stress Sensitized Auditory Brainstem and Altered Cochlear Proteome in Rat IBS Model

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