Misophonia Student Research Grant Recipients
soQuiet is one of the only funders of misophonia research in the United States. This is thanks to our gracious donors who support the Misophonia Student Research Grant program. Learn more about these amazing student researchers below!
Misophonia Student Research Grant Recipients
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Shagun Ajmera
Project: Differentiating Hyperacusis and Misophonia Using fMRI
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Sajana Aryal, MSc Audiology
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Danielle Benesch
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Vivien Black
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Ariana Castro
Project: A Case Studies Exploration of the Role of Sound Source, Appraisals, and Emotions in Misophonia
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Diya Dinesh
Project: Audiological test findings in Individuals with misophonia, misokinesia, and co-occurring misophonia and misokinesia
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Annie Feeley
Project: Audiological Assessment of Misophonia
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Mabel Forward
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Heather Hansen, PhD
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Namitha Jain
Project: Differentiating Hyperacusis and Misophonia Using fMRI
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Kamalakannan K
Project: Investigation of Auditory Cortical Functioning and Auditory Processing Abilities in Individuals with Misophonia
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Gibbeum Kim
Project: Distinguishing Misophonia from Hypearcusis using Auditory Brainstem Response
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Dana Mahmoud, M.S.
Project: Physiological outcomes related to earphone effectiveness in misophonia.
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Niah Nieuwenhuis
Project: Attention and Perception in Misophonia
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Freya Noonan
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Urszula Oszczapinska
Project: Misophonia and Pupillometry
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Haley Padilla
Project: P300 waveform measures in individuals with misophonia. Winner of the Kent/Innovations Misophonia Neuroscience Grant
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Monica Qiu
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Nico Remmert
Project: Misophonic Behavioral Avoidance Test (M-BAT)
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Marie-Anick Savard
Project: Validation and Extension of the Free Open-Access Misophonia Stimuli [FOAMS] database.
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P.R. Sujeeth
Project: Auditory Sensory Gating in Misophonia : A Neurophysiological Evaluation
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Hana Weiss
Project: “Heated Reactions: Mapping Misophonic Responses to Trigger Sounds”
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Mercedes Woolley
Project: Psychological processes and sound tolerance symptoms in adults with misophonia and non-treatment seeking controls.
Studies funded by soQuiet Misophonia Research Grants
Psychosocial and Audiological Characteristics in Misophonia: An Interdisciplinary Comparison Study of Adults with Misophonia to Healthy Controls. [2025]
by Mercedes Woolley, Hailey E. Johnson, Emily M. Bowers, Doris Velasquez, Julie M. Petersen, Karen Muñoz, and Michael Twohig
Sensory processing differences in misophonia: Assessing sensory sensitivities beyond auditory triggers [2026]
by Mercedes G. Woolley, Hailey E. Johnson, Samuel Knight, Emily M. Bowers, Julie M. Petersen, Karen Muñoz, and Michael Twohig
Curation of FOAMS: a Free Open-Access Misophonia Stimuli Database [2023]
by Dean M. Orloff, Danielle Benesch, and Heather A. Hansen [Journal of Open Psychiatry Data]
Auditory Cortical Functioning in Individuals with Misophonia: An Electrophysiological Investigation [2023].
by Sajana Aryal and Prashanth Prabhu
[European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology]
Assessment of Auditory Processing Abilities in Individuals with Misophonia Having Normal Hearing Sensitivity [2024]
by Kamalakannan Karupaiah, Prashanth Prabhu
Visual Disgust Constricts Pupils in Response to Misophonic Movies [2025]
by Monica Qiu, Sungjoon Park, Urszula Oszczapinska, and Laurie M. Heller
Auditory Processing and Neuroregulation in Misophonia: A Comparative Study of Behavioral Measures [2025]
by Kamalakannan Karupaiah, Prashanth Prabhu
Differential brain responses to affective sounds in misophonia and hyperacusis: A task-based fMRI approach [2006]
by Namitha Jain, Shagun Ajmera, Somayeh Shahsavarani, Rafay A. Khan, Gibbeum Kim, Howard Berenbaum, & Fatima T. Husain
Auditory Efferent Pathway Functioning in Individuals with Misophonia [2024].
by Sajana Aryal and Prashanth Prabhu
[Auditory and Vestibular Research]
Auditory brainstem functioning in individuals with misophonia [2023]
by Sajana Aryal and Prashanth Prabhu [Journal of Otology]
THE NOVEL CONDITION: Using Human-Centred Methods to Explore Misophonia [2023]
by Freya Noonan and Mabel Forward. Master’s thesis.