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Misophonia as a spectrum disorder via Hansen 2026

In a 2026 study, Hansen emphasized the conceptualization of misophonia as a spectrum disorder on the rationale that symptom severity varies continuously in the general population and that neural connectivity differences were detectable only when misophonia was modeled dimensionally rather than categorically. Binary group comparisons failed to reveal significant effects, whereas continuous severity scores were associated with systematic variation in anterior insula connectivity. This supports the view that treating misophonia as present versus absent obscures meaningful variability in neural and behavioral expression (Hansen et al., 2026).