I am a neuroscientist interested in auditory perception, cognition and emotion processing
Iowa City
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Sukhbinder Kumar retweeted
We believe that thinking of misophonia this way will give us a better understanding of the underlying neural mechanisms and enable development of novel treatments. Many thanks to Hirohito Kondo, Brian Moore and Giulia Poerio for organising this theme and inviting us to submit.
Sukhbinder Kumar retweeted
We consider misophonia within a social perception and cognition framework, one which accounts for the context in which sounds are perceived and the emotional reaction that is triggered. We highlight a need to go beyond thinking of misophonia as a disorder of auditory processing.
Sukhbinder Kumar retweeted
Honoured to be a part of an excellent theme issue published by @RSocPublishing. @skumar_ncl and I wrote a paper placing misophonia within a social cognition framework: doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2023.02…; there's an excellent summary of the entire series here: doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2023.02…
Sukhbinder Kumar retweeted
Great write-up and commentary @NeurologyToday: bit.ly/3MLO7vX on our latest publication @JCI_insight - we are one step closer to identifying epilepsy patients at high risk for #SUDEP and a preventative treatment for SUDEP @UIowaNeuro @uiowa @UIchildrens @CureEpilepsy
A Social Cognition Perspective on Misophonia
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In this pre-print, we outline limitations of the prevailing auditory framework and argue for a social cognition framework to understand misophonia.
Thanks to co-authors @JoelIBerger and Phillip Gander.
Sukhbinder Kumar retweeted
We found that in #epilepsy patients, when seizures spread to a focal subregion of the human #amygdala, apnea is evoked & can persist for minutes after the seizures ends! Patients are unaware! This may lead to sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (#SUDEP). insight.jci.org/articles/vie…
Our new work on 'Mimicry in Misophonia' : psyarxiv.com/phztn/
We show that:
1. Mimicry is widely prevalent in misophonia.
2. Compared to other sounds, eating sounds are more likely to trigger mimicking.
3. The act of mimicking provides relief to people with misophonia.
The data in this work is consistent with the 'hyper-mirroring' hypothesis of misophonia put forward in our previous fMRI work (Kumar et al, 2021).
Thanks to all the co-authors: @parisarizonaash , Ester Benzaquén, Phillip Gander and @JoelIBerger
A postdoc position is available at University of Iowa to take forward our work on misophonia. Someone with experience in fMRI data analysis would best fit the job. For more details, please see:
jobs.uiowa.edu/postdoc/view/…
Feel free to get in touch if you have any further query.
Simplified explanation of the findings in our recent work on misophonia jneurosci.org/content/early/…
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We are excited to share our latest work on misophonia, which is out today in the Journal of Neuroscience.
jneurosci.org/content/early/…
Please follow this thread for a brief description.
Interestingly, some people with misophonia can lessen their symptoms by mimicking the action generating the trigger sound, which might indicate restoring a sense of control.