Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. offered testimony at two Capitol Hill hearings on May 14. The appearance prompted questions about his voice.

RFK Jr.'s strained voice stems from spasmodic dysphonia, a rare disorder affecting speech but not his cognitive abilities or ...

In North America, an estimated 50,000 people have spasmodic dysphonia. The condition involves the involuntary pulling of the ...

The Health and Human Services Secretary initially developed symptoms while teaching at Pace University in New York ...

The most common type of spasmodic dysphonia is called adductor dysphonia, which accounts for 80% of cases. It is characterized by a strained or strangled voice quality with abrupt breaks on vowels due ...

Spasmodic dysphonia is classified as a focal dystonia, a dystonia that affects one body part – the vocal folds, in the case of spasmodic dysphonia. Dystonia is an umbrella term for movement ...

With Ramos’s vocalizations, supraglottal movement was extreme. Understanding how harsh vocalists sing in ways beyond the true vocal folds could help performers practice their craft safely and ...

U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks at an April 16, 2025, news conference in Washington, D.C. Alex Wong via Getty Images ...

Dysphonias fall into a broader category of movement disorders Spasmodic dysphonia is classified as a focal dystonia, a dystonia that affects one body part – the vocal folds, in the case of ...