Spasmodic dysphonia is just one of many conditions that can change the way someone talks. Anything that injures your vocal folds – or affects the tiny muscles around them – can alter your voice.

Losing your voice is a pretty common predicament – but what’s going on, physiologically, to cause your sudden silence? And should you ever be worried about it? Medically speaking, losing your ...

So, you’ve lost your voice. Or maybe you’ve got that tell-tale tickle in your throat and you’re worried that your voice will be gone before you get time to do the big presentation you’ve ...

"You don't appreciate your voice until you lose it, and losing it is a big quality-of-life issue," Sataloff said. For his part, Sataloff can no longer chance a full-volume E-A-G-L-E-S chant.

I’d been onstage in the middle of a breakup or a death in the family; and I’d lost my voice during a performance," he said. Despite doing vocal warm-ups and trying to persevere through the ...