Lee Miller vividly recalls the day in 2021 when he met a woman who had lost the function of her vocal cords. In hoarse, whispering tones she explained how her voice had been instrumental to her vocation. Losing it, she said, undercut her life’s purpose. Her words were faint, but the lesson was powerful.
“Our voice is so important to our sense of identity and empowerment,” said Miller, a professor of neurobiology, physiology and behavior in the University of California, Davis College of Biological Sciences, a professor of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery at the UC Davis School of Medicine and technical director of the Center for Mind and Brain.
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