A 16-year-old girl in Virginia developed a stutter after performing with her marching band at her first home football game. The stutter later gave way to a complete loss of her conversational voice. Yet she could still sing.
Doctors at Carilion Clinic and the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine in Roanoke described the case in Psychopharmacology Bulletin in July 2025. They diagnosed a psychogenic speech and voice disorder, a condition in which psychological factors disrupt the voice without any structural problem.
