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Misophonia is a condition where ordinary, everyday sounds – such as someone eating or breathing – cause a severe anxiety and anger response.

Tim Griffiths, a professor of cognitive neurology at Newcastle University’s Auditory Cognition Group, has been studying people with misophonia. He thinks that different parts of the brain – the insula and motor cortex – are involved in this fight or flight response to seemingly innocuous sounds.

We also hear from Olana Tansley-Hancock, who developed misophonia when she was eight-years-old.

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