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Such sensory hypersensitivity is often associated with one or more of a range of neurological, psychiatric, and neurodevelopmental conditions or neurodivergence. The cortical mechanisms of sensory hypersensitivity, and reasons why it occurs with such a range of conditions, remain unknown. For three decades, theories have focused on excitation\/inhibition balance, where visual discomfort reflects over-excitation relative to inhibition. Visual gamma oscillations induced by viewing stripes are an accepted index of excitation\/inhibition, and are successfully modeled by a cortical circuit. Visual gamma is, therefore, predicted to be altered in people with high visual discomfort. We tested this in two studies. The first used circular moving gratings to evoke visual gamma, alongside self-reported scales for sensory sensitivity and for discomfort induced by viewing images (N = 166). 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