Title: "Effects of Psychosocial Stress on Laryngeal Biology"

Speaker: Dr. Anumitha Venkatraman, Ph.D., CCC-SLP

Psychosocial stress and voice disorders are circularly and inextricably linked. While 25% of patients with voice disorders report increased self-perceived psychosocial stress, a single stressful event causes negative acoustic voice changes. Despite an associative relationship between stress and voice disorders, underlying biological mechanisms remain relatively unexplored. In the gut...