<story><title>Misophonia: Scientists crack why eating sounds can make people angry</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/health-38842561</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brockf</author><text>How is this an &amp;quot;explanation&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;cracking&amp;quot; the problem? They showed that an emotional response was correlated with neural behavior... what else could it have been?&lt;p&gt;More broadly, it&amp;#x27;s frustrating that neuroscientists reframe genuinely interesting questions (&amp;quot;Why do I get angry when people eat apples beside me?&amp;quot;) into boring questions (&amp;quot;What does my brain look like when I&amp;#x27;m angry about someone eating an apple?&amp;quot;).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sampo</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;How is this an &amp;quot;explanation&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;cracking&amp;quot; the problem? They showed that an emotional response was correlated with neural behavior... what else could it have been?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are Facebook support groups, and a subreddit, for people suffering form this disorder, and it&amp;#x27;s not uncommon that family members, spouses and friends think they are just being obnoxious, and advise them to &amp;quot;just shrug it off&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;If it&amp;#x27;s a measurable neurophysiological condition, this gives some support that those people just cannot shrug it off, whatever they try. It can also help the sufferers to know that they are not being just crazy, but something really is different in the way their brain is wired.</text></comment>
<story><title>Misophonia: Scientists crack why eating sounds can make people angry</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/health-38842561</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brockf</author><text>How is this an &amp;quot;explanation&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;cracking&amp;quot; the problem? They showed that an emotional response was correlated with neural behavior... what else could it have been?&lt;p&gt;More broadly, it&amp;#x27;s frustrating that neuroscientists reframe genuinely interesting questions (&amp;quot;Why do I get angry when people eat apples beside me?&amp;quot;) into boring questions (&amp;quot;What does my brain look like when I&amp;#x27;m angry about someone eating an apple?&amp;quot;).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>orange_fritter</author><text>The actual journal article contains more specifics that may help direct further research.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cell.com&amp;#x2F;current-biology&amp;#x2F;fulltext&amp;#x2F;S0960-9822(16)31530-5&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cell.com&amp;#x2F;current-biology&amp;#x2F;fulltext&amp;#x2F;S0960-9822(16)3...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;You&amp;#x27;re right that the BBC article is titled inappropriately.  One sentence of the scientific paper&amp;#x27;s conclusion indicates that the problem is far from &amp;quot;cracked&amp;quot;:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; With the available data, it is not possible to decide whether misophonia is a cause or consequence of atypical interoception, and further work is needed to delineate the relation between the two.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t find brain activity to be boring and I&amp;#x27;m willing to put up with researchers trying in earnest to gain any insight into misophonia; this seemingly laughable condition drastically impacts my daily experience.</text></comment>