The International Misophonia Research Network (IMRN) was formed by Dr. Jennifer Jo Brout in 2015 to help facilitate research, and connect the general public with the researchers who are focused on misophonia. The IMRN was formed from the SENetwork, which initially looked into misophonia as auditory over-responsivity.
Research Publications
- Brout, J, J. (2022) A brief commentary on the consensus definition of misophonia. Frontiers Neuroscience. 16:879070. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2022.879070 [Read Study]
- Brout, J. J., Edelstein, M., Erfanian, M., Mannino, M., Miller, L. J., Rouw, R., et al. (2018). Investigating misophonia: a review of the empirical literature, clinical implications, and a research agenda. Frontiers Neuroscience. 12:36. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2018.00036 [Read Study]
- Cassiello-Robbins C, Anand D, McMahon K, Brout J, Kelley L and Rosenthal MZ (2021) A Preliminary Investigation of the Association Between Misophonia and Symptoms of Psychopathology and Personality Disorders. Frontiers Psychology. 11:519681. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.519681 [Read Study]
- Erfanian, M., Brout, J. J., & Keshavarz, A. (2018). Misophonia, emotional dysregulation and affective disorders: a preliminary study. European Neuropsychopharmacology, 28(6), 771–772. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroneuro.2017.10.014 [Read Study]
- Teresa, T., Lucy, J. M., Sarah, A. S., Jennifer, J. B., Jillian, S., & Simon, B.-C. (n.d.). Sensory reactivity, empathizing and systemizing in autism spectrum conditions and sensory processing disorder. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 29, 72–77. [Read Study]
- Erfanian, M., Brout, J., & Keshavarz, A. (2017). Misophonia and affective disorders: The relationship and clinical perspective. European Psychiatry, 41(S1), S471-S471. doi:10.1016/j.eurpsy.2017.01.539 [Read Study]
Advisory Board
Research Articles
Misokinesia, Misophonia, and Mirror Neurons
Sometimes we miss the obvious. Sometimes scientific connections stare us in the face, and we don’t see them, and therefore they are left unexplored. Mercede Erfanian, a prominent misophonia researcher at the
Important Misophonia Brain Research by Joseph E. Ledoux and Lorenzo Diaz-Mataix
Report on Findings of the LeDoux Lab by Jennifer Jo Brout One of the working theories related to mechanisms underlying misophonia is that auditory stimuli may be misinterpreted by the
No, Misophonia is Not OCD, Stop Saying it Is
Misophonia is definitely not OCD. I say that, because I have both Misophonia and OCD, and yet some researchers are still conflating the two. I’m not entirely sure why researchers
Will Misophonia Gain Entry Into the DSM?
Many people want to know why misophonia is not in the DSM, or are curious as to how we can get misophonia into the DSM. As you may know, the
Groundbreaking Research on the Motor Basis for Misophonia
An interview with Sukhbinder Kumar and Mercede Erfanian. Would you describe the major findings of your study, “The motor basis for misophonia” (Journal of Neuroscience, 2021) In our recent study, we
Not All Research is Good (Or Even Ethical) Research
Since misophonia is a newer disorder, and one in which the consensus is still being reached, there is a lot of room for “researchers” to get things wrong. In-fact, getting