The neurological condition can cause people like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to have voices that break and can sound "strangled." ...

Kennedy, 71, previously revealed he was diagnosed with a rare neurological condition called spasmodic dysphonia when he was in his early 40s. "It began as a mild tremble for a couple of years ...

Kennedy, 71, has long suffered from a rare neurological condition known as spasmodic dysphonia. The quiver-like voice disorder, which has affected the Kennedy scion for decades, essentially can ...

The current treatment for patients with spasmodic dysphonia is a specialized form of botox. Patients get botox injected into their vocal cords to stop the spasms. According to Dr. Christopher ...

Spasmodic dysphonia impacts about 50,000 people in North America. Here's what to know about what causes spasmodic dysphonia ...

Most of his research looks at the way we use sensory signals, looking at senses from hearing to vision for any shared connection among patients with spasmodic dysphonia. And he found one ...

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has a condition called spasmodic dysphonia, which causes the sound of a raspy voice due to spasms in the vocal cords.

Kennedy Jr.'s voice. Spasmodic dysphonia is a chronic neurological voice disorder and a focal laryngeal dystonia. It results in involuntary spasms of the muscles that open or close the vocal folds ...

That’s because he has spasmodic dysphonia, a rare neurological condition ... Research suggests it takes an average of four to five years for patients to get an accurate diagnosis.