Most of us can relate to feeling uncomfortable when someone scrapes their nails down a chalkboard.

For those with the condition misophonia , sounds like slurping, snoring, breathing, and chewing can draw an equally stressful response.

A study published in 2023 by researchers in the Netherlands suggests the condition shares genes with mood disorders such as anxiety, depression , and PTSD.

University of Amsterdam psychiatrist Dirk Smit and colleagues analyzed the genetic data from the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, UK Biobank, and 23andMe databases.

They found people who self-identified as having misophonia were more likely to have genes associated with psychiatric disorders , as well as tinnitus .

Watch the clip below for a summary of their findings:

Patients with tinnit

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