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support for psychology-based therapeutic approaches (CBT) to Misophonia

in a 2026 study, Ajmera gave support for psychology-based therapeutic approaches by showing that misophonia is characterized by dysfunction in salience and frontoparietal control circuits, which are involved in emotional reactivity, attentional allocation, and cognitive control. They then suggest suggest that this pattern indicates that interventions targeting emotion regulation, attentional shifting, and cognitive reappraisal (core components of therapies like CBT) are well-aligned with the observed underlying neural disruptions and may help normalize maladaptive connectivity driving misophonic responses. (Ajmera et al., 2026)