By Lauren Ralston and Julia Campbell

This article is a part of the May/June 2024, Volume 36, Number 3, Audiology Today issue.

Misophonia, traditionally defined as a condition involving a severe negative response to specific sounds, was only recognized as a medical condition within the last 20 years. Pawel and Margaret Jastreboff (2001) coined the term misophonia in an article discussing decreased sound tolerance, which proposed a working definition and described symptoms of patients suffering from misophonia. 

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