Spasmodic dysphonia is a rare vocal disorder characterized by a strained, uneven and uncontrolled voice while speaking.

As Robert F. Kennedy Jr. answered questions during the second day of the Senate confirmation hearings for his nomination to head the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, many people have ...

Kennedy Jr.’s noticeably raspy voice. His unique tone is in fact due to a rare neurological condition called spasmodic dysphonia. Kennedy, 71, has made it known that he’s not a fan of his ...

Mark McDonald Spasmodic torticollis is a word describing a “wry neck” in which the patient has a neurologically based increase in the tone or contraction of the neck muscles, causing the head ...

Spasmodic dysphonia (SD) is a neurological disorder caused by dystonia (abnormal sustained muscle contraction) of the vocal cords, hence also referred to as “laryngeal dystonia”. Depending on the ...

Kennedy has a condition called spasmodic dysphonia, a neurological disorder that impacts the muscles in the voice box, also known as the larynx, according to the National Institute on Deafness and ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has a disorder called spasmodic dysphonia that makes it sound like his voice is shaking. He has said the neurological disease began to affect him when he was 42.