Components of Decreased Sound Tolerance : Hyperacusis, Misophonia, Phonophobia
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This report is an attempt to bring to your attention some important information related to decreased sound tolerance and it is based on a short paper (Jastreboff, MM and Jastreboff PJ, Hyperacusis, Audiology Online, June 2001, http://www.audiologyonline.com). In particular, as we recently proposed a new term “misophonia” and we would like to provide some explanation and justification for it (Jastreboff, PJ and Jastreboff, MM, Tinnitus and hyperacusis, In: Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, JJ Ballenger and JB Snow (eds), Singular, in press).
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تاریخ انتشار 2001