[Spam 6.11] Re: just curious...

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Reading this comment suddenly gave me the idea that mirror neurons (see

Wikipedia) might be important in misophonia.

It has long been oberved that TMJ (Costen's syndrome) and Meniere Spectrum

Disorder often occur together, but quite why no one knows or seems particularly

interested in finding out. What this does mean is that external and internal

sounds are amplified in the cochlea and so sound unduly loud, unpleasantly so

once higher areas in the brain get roped in. Hence mirror cells in the cortex

get over-excited, so not only do they fire in response to your own sounds, but

now do so when they register other people making these sounds. This may

overgeneralise to visual signals as well.

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> > Good question Sheryl. Most of the time my own eating noises are not

> > bothersome. Only sometimes when my tolerance is really low do I have to

> > resort to liquid meal replacements like Ensure or a Smoothy. I sometimes

> > eat chips or popcorn in self defense if someone else is eating them around

> > me. I have to drown out their noise with mine and help them get to the end

> > of the torture quicker.

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> > *From:* Sheryl Cristol

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> > *Sent:* Monday, July 2, 2012 11:21 PM

> > *Subject:* just curious...

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> > For those members who are triggered by eating noises... do your own eating

> > noises bother you? Like, can you eat potato chips or chew gum or does even

> > your own stuff trigger you?

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