Here is the Ig Informal Lecture by the winners of the 2020 Ig Nobel Medicine Prize.
The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that make people LAUGH, then THINK. In the Ig Informal Lectures, some days after the ceremony, the new Ig Nobel Prize winners attempt to explain what they did, and why they did it. [In non-pandemic years, the lectures happen at MIT, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, two days after the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. But in the pandemic year 2020, it’s all happening online.]
The 2020 Ig Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to Nienke Vulink, Damiaan Denys, and Arnoud van Loon, for diagnosing a long-unrecognized medical condition: Misophonia, the distress at hearing other people make chewing sounds.
They documented their research, in these studies:
- “Misophonia: Diagnostic Criteria for a New Psychiatric Disorder,” Arjan Schroder, Nienke Vulink, and Damiaan Denys, PLoS ONE, vol. 8, no. 1, 2013, e54706.
- “Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is Effective in Misophonia: An Open Trial,” Arjan E. Schröder, Nienke C. Vulink, Arnoud J. van Loon, and Damiaan A. Denys, Journal of Affective Disorders, vol. 217, 2017, pp. 289-294..
Schedule
We will release The Ig Informal Lectures, one at a time, here on www.improbablecom.wpcomstaging.com, and on YouTube. Here are the release dates:
- November 26th, 2020: Economics
- December 3rd, 2020: Psychology
- December 17th, 2020: Medicine
- December 24th, 2020: Physics
- December 31st, 2020: Entomology
- January 7th, 2021: Acoustics
- January 14th, 2021: Materials Science