{"id":220527,"date":"2025-08-20T15:09:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T20:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/changing-how-we-understand-and-potentially-treat-misophonia"},"modified":"2025-08-20T15:09:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T20:09:57","slug":"changing-how-we-understand-and-potentially-treat-misophonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/changing-how-we-understand-and-potentially-treat-misophonia","title":{"rendered":"Changing how we understand, and potentially treat, misophonia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/changing-how-we-understand-and-potentially-treat-misophonia.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Throughout her career, Laurie Heller has listened closely\u2014not just to words, but to sound itself. In the Auditory Lab at Carnegie Mellon University, the psychology professor explores how the brain interprets everything from environmental clatter to the subtle noises that can spark deep feelings of safety, connection, or in some cases, rage.<\/p>\n<p>So when Yuqi \u201cMonica\u201d Qiu, then an undergraduate in <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/computer+science\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">computer science<\/a>, emailed Heller after seeing a recruitment poster for a study, Heller was ready to listen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have misophonia,\u201d Qiu wrote. \u201cAnd I want to help.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout her career, Laurie Heller has listened closely\u2014not just to words, but to sound itself. In the Auditory Lab at Carnegie Mellon University, the psychology professor explores how the brain interprets everything from environmental clatter to the subtle noises that can spark deep feelings of safety, connection, or in some cases, rage. So when Yuqi [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}