Overview
Misophonia, emotional functioning, borderline personality disorder, digital health, behavioral therapies, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)
Current Duke Appointments & Affiliations
Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
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2026 - Present
Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Adult Psychiatry & Psychology,
Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Director of the Psychology Clinic in the Department of Psychology & Neuroscience
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2026 - Present
Psychology & Neuroscience,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
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2026 - Present
Psychology & Neuroscience,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Recent Scholarly Works
Patterns of shared and differential neural activity in misophonia and non-misophonic clinical emotional dysregulation.
Journal article BMC Psychiatry · June 29, 2026 Misophonia is a poorly understood clinical condition characterized by reduced tolerance to select trigger sounds. Whether misophonic distress and its regulation involve unique neural mechanisms compared to other forms of emotion dysregulation remains uncle ... Full text Link to item CiteReal-time emotional responses to trigger sounds in misophonia: An ecological momentary assessment study.
Journal article J Affect Disord · June 15, 2026 Although misophonia is characterized by intense negative emotional responses, the temporal dynamics of these experiences in naturalistic settings are poorly understood. This study utilized ecological momentary assessment (EMA) to characterize the real-time ... Full text Link to item CiteTransdiagnostic mechanisms of decreased sound tolerance
Journal article Nature Reviews Psychology · June 1, 2026 Decreased sound tolerance — a group of conditions characterized by a reduced ability to cope with everyday sounds that are tolerable for most people — often co-occurs with mental health disorders such as autism spectrum disorder, attention deficit hyperact ... Full text CiteRecent Grants
Duke University Psychiatry Physician-Scientist Residency Training Program
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institute of Mental Health · 2024 - 2029Semantic Sound Suppression Using a Neural Network for Misophonia
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Washington · 2025 - 2028Longitudinal Incidence and Prevalence of Misophonia in a Nationally Representative Sample of U.S. Adults
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by The REAM Foundation · 2024 - 2027View All Grants
Education
University of Nevada, Reno ·
2002
Ph.D.