User talk:Sillyrob

Unreliable sources/citations
I feel there is a problem with the following citations, as they do not seem to be academic (yet are making sweeping statements about what the disorder is or may be).

Citing a "life coach" not a doctor. Her book and website seem to be directly selling her "life counseling" services. When I looked her book "Sound Rage" up on WorldCat her book is not shown - which leads me to wonder if it is even a peer-reviewed source, let alone medically legitimate enough to be citing "evidence" or "theories" in a way that may lead sufferers astray and to assume that there is enough research on the disorder.

Source 9 (a and b) states that "A 2013 review of neurological studies and fMRI studies of the brain as it relates to the disorder[9] postulated that abnormal or dysfunctional assessment of neural signals occurs in the anterior cingulate cortex and insular cortex" Judith T. Krauthamer (2013). Sound-Rage. A Primer of the Neurobiology and Psychology of a Little Known Anger Disorder. Chalcedony Press, 210 pgs.

Whether or not this is or is not true cannot be definitive as the source used is not an academic source, and is a personal book, written by a "life coach" - please see http://www.sound-rage.com/judith-t.-krauthamer.html ; though Ms. Krauthamer does have an undergraduate and graduate degree - she does not have a PhD (or undergrad, graduate respectively) in neuroscience, psychology, or any other related fields. As well, the source is not academic and therefore cannot be peer-reviewed or backed up by notable researchers or academic experts.

The second source from Ms. Krauthamer, I am not entirely sure if it is good/bad - I believe this should be reviewed as well. Since she is NOT a doctor, nor an official researcher, I believe it may be a sweeping assumption (yet again) to claim "People who have misophonia are most commonly angered by specific sounds, such as lip-smacking, slurping, throat-clearing, nail-clipping, chewing, drinking, tooth-brushing, breathing, sniffing, talking, sneezing, yawning, walking, gum-chewing or popping, laughing, snoring, swallowing, gulping, burping, clicking dentures, typing, coughing, humming, whistling, singing, certain consonants, or repetitive sounds.[16][17]

Perhaps minor amendments such as "may most commonly be" or other less definitive language.

Krauthamer, Judith T. (April 2014) Descriptive Statistics of Misophonia.Retrieved online.

Upon reviewing the sources on the page, I found it quite odd that one statement (which is led by a comment about there being no clinical evidence) had three citations, all from separate articles by the same individual, Tom Dozier.

"Some misophonic individuals responded favorably to treatment protocols that included active extinction or counterconditioning, which are both conditioning processes that allow a conditioned reflex to decay.[8][13][14][15]"

Sources listed :

Dozier, T. H. (2015). "Treating the initial physical reflex of misophonia with the neural repatterning technique: A counterconditioning procedure". Psychological Thought 8: 189–210

Dozier T. H. (2015). Psychological Thought

Dozier T. H. (2015). "Counter-conditioning treatment for misophonia". Clinical Case Studies 14: 374–387.

Upon reading the talk page I have discovered that this individual has repeatedly spammed the page in the past and has been trying to sell treatments for the disorder. He is a business entity (as previously mentioned) and does not seem to have any doctoral background.

Ethically, I believe it is unwise to advertise "counter conditioning" at this time as there is no evidence as to whether or not it can help, and especially, no medical/clinical data and research that shows it is safe. Since the disorder is so unknown, sufferers may feel the need to try anything that "may help" and it is dangerous to lead them to a source that has been blatantly advertising and has not gone through the proper channels to test treatments.