Le emozioni nella voce: il loro ruolo nelle disfonie disfunzionali

Emotions in the voice. Their role in dysfunctional disphonia. It's easy to observe that some phonyatric symp-toms are often together, in tbe patients, with particular emotional peculiarities. Voice is considered as a way of expression of speaker emotional situations, through the change of the tone, tbe intensity and the duration. In this review article, voice acoustic peculiari-ties in the different emotions, and their relations with vocal strain, are described. It's possible to suppose that, in dysfunctional dysphonia, consciousness aboutrelations between vocal use and emotions, could be a part of voice treatment as important as vocal exercises. In fact, to achieve a better emotional balance, supports euphonia retum