Functional Aphonia Research Articles

The influence of motivational factors on hypnotic susceptibility.

Abstract The case of a woman suffering from functional aphonia is described. Treatment through hypnotic age-regression was successful; however, she became refractory to hypnosis following a traumatic event. Motivation as a condition of hypnotic susceptibility is noted.

Treatment of Functional Aphonia in a Child and an Adult

Treatment of Functional Aphonia in a Child and an Adult

Muscle spasticity in functional aphonia and dysphonia

Muscle spasticity in functional aphonia and dysphonia

DIAGNOSIS AND DIRECT LARYNGOSCOPIC TREATMENT OF FUNCTIONAL APHONIA

Functional aphonia may be defined as a clinical entity in which there is sudden complete loss of voice without any demonstrable organic lesion in the neuromuscular apparatus used in voice production. In cases in which there is not complete loss of voice, a barely audible whispering note may be the only result of attempts at phonation. The condition may be precipitated without any forewarning, and the patient may retire in full possession of the voice only to awaken and find vocalization impossible. Likewise, after the condition has persisted for a variable time, the vocal powers may return as suddenly and as mysteriously as they disappeared, only too often, however, to be lost again. E. C. MacLeod, 1 in 1930, reporting her clinical observations in the treatment of a large number of patients, offered to differentiate two types of the disease: True aphonia, in which there is little or no approximation

A Test for Functional Aphonia and for the Detection of Complete Unilateral Feigned Nerve Deafness

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A Note on the Treatment of Functional Aphonia

A Note on the Treatment of Functional Aphonia

Demonstration of Apparatus Used to Treat Functional Aphonia and Allied Disorders, with Some Notes on the Classification of Such Disorders

Demonstration of Apparatus Used to Treat Functional Aphonia and Allied Disorders, with Some Notes on the Classification of Such Disorders

BILATERAL PARALYSIS OF THE ADDUCTORS OF THE VOCAL CORDS OF ORGANIC ORIGIN: REPORT OF A CASE OF LANDRY'S PARALYSIS

The synonyms for bilateral paralysis of the adductors of the vocal cords are functional aphonia and hysterical aphonia, designating its functional origin. The present case is of interest as the bilateral paralysis of the adductors appears to be of definite organic origin. The case is unusual in another respect, in that it belongs to the class of cases described by Landry, and yet complete recovery followed. REPORT OF CASE M. B., a white woman, aged 29, was admitted to the obstetric service of the New Haven Hospital, complaining of vomiting and loss of weight. Seven weeks previously she had begun to vomit. Her family physician told her that she was three months pregnant, even though her periods had been regular. The last period had occurred one month before admission. Twelve days before admission the patient attempted an abortion, and bled for a week. Following this, the vomiting became more

Case of Functional Aphonia, Voice restored by application of Negus's Hand-pressure and Bárány's Noise Machine

Case of Functional Aphonia, Voice restored by application of Negus's Hand-pressure and Bárány's Noise Machine

REPORT OF A CASE OF FUNCTIONAL APHONIA, CURED UNDER GENERAL ANESTHETIC

Mrs. M. T., aged 51, whose nervous system has been below par since her husband committed suicide, a year and a half ago, in January, 1922, contracted influenza. Prior to February 1, she enjoyed the full use of her voice, but that morning she found that she could not talk above a whisper. She ascribed the condition to the influenza. A number of chiropractic treatments were taken, but the voice remained a whisper. For the relief of this condition, she reported, Oct. 30, 1922. The loss of the voice had then persisted continuously for nine months. Examination of the larynx revealed a slight redness of the posterior fourth of the left vocal cord. There was no paralysis of either cord. Examination revealed that the heart, lungs and kidneys were negative; the Wassermann reaction was negative, and there was no aortic aneurysm or goiter. A diagnosis was made of functional aphonia,

Prolonged and Obstinate Functional Aphonia treated by Hypnotism.

Prolonged and Obstinate Functional Aphonia treated by Hypnotism.

Case of Functional Aphonia of Ten Months’ Duration, with Laryngitis

Case of Functional Aphonia of Ten Months’ Duration, with Laryngitis

Case of Functional Aphonia of Three Months’ Duration

Case of Functional Aphonia of Three Months’ Duration

A Note on Treatment of “Functional Aphonia” in Soldiers from the Front

A Note on Treatment of “Functional Aphonia” in Soldiers from the Front

Functional Aphonia following the Bursting of a Shell in Close Proximity to the Patient

Functional Aphonia following the Bursting of a Shell in Close Proximity to the Patient

Two Cases of Functional Aphonia (one including Functional Deafness) following the Bursting of a Shell in Close Proximity to the Patient

Two Cases of Functional Aphonia (one including Functional Deafness) following the Bursting of a Shell in Close Proximity to the Patient

Functional Aphonia in a Child, Aged 6

Functional Aphonia in a Child, Aged 6

Functional Aphonia in a Boy aged 15.

Functional Aphonia in a Boy aged 15.

APHONIA DUE TO CHRONIC ALCOHOLISM. PARALYSIS OF THE LATERAL CRICO-ARYTENOIDS.

Read to the Section of Ophthalmology, Otology and Laryngology of American Medical Association, May 8, 1884. There is no morbid condition involving the vocal organs possessing a more varied pathogeny than paralysis of the lateral crico-arytenoid muscles, the functional aphonia of pre-laryngoscopic authors. No disease is more doubtful in its amenability to therapeutic measures, the restoration of voice in some instances following the introduction of the laryngoscopic mirror; in others baffling all our resources. That motor disturbances of the muscles under discussion resulting from fright, mental emotion, anæmia, chlorosis, dysmenorrhœa, intestinal irritation, rheumatism, syphilis, diphtheria, hysteria, and reflex influences do occur is a fact generally admitted and frequently observed by the laryngologist. Lead, arsenic, phosphorus, opium, and belladonna, have all been accredited with having caused palsy of the various laryngeal muscles. These cases, however, are greatly scattered throughout literature, and occasionally lack important details. "The influence of certain substances taken