Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has spasmodic dysphonia, a voice disorder caused by a malfunction in the brain. Here’s what to know.

Spasmodic dysphonia is just one of many conditions that can change the way someone talks. Anything that injures your vocal ...

What if you woke up one morning and found it nearly impossible to talk? That's the impact of a condition that affects ...

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 ...

Instead, he has spasmodic dysphonia ... begin in the part of the brain called the basal ganglia that controls how muscles contract. When the condition strikes, that signal is distorted, causing ...

Instead, he has spasmodic dysphonia, a rare neurological condition ... “We can’t change the brain signal coming in to the muscle, but we can weaken the muscle so it can’t go into spasm.” ...