Bruce Willis’ family first announced in 2022 that he was stepping away from acting after being diagnosed with aphasia, a ...

Thanks to a grant from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, the Hillsborough, N.J., resident spent October through June in ...

Around a third of people are able to almost fully rebuild their brains after a stroke and uncovering why is pointing the way ...

These ‘rarer’ forms of the condition can affect people in their 30s to 60s, with symptoms often mistaken for stress, depression or menopause ...

Studies on aphasia of Chinese culture in college English teaching have been focused for a long time. Yet little attention has been paid to the senior high school English teaching concerning this ...

Broca’s description of aphemia signals the emergence of aphasiology as a discipline. It also marks the beginning of a long tradition of studies of right-handed patients (“Nous parlons avec ...

Anomic aphasia is a language disorder that involves difficulty finding or recalling the word a person wants to use. A person’s language comprehension, grammar, and fluency tend to remain intact.

Imagine you’re a physician and you are called in to evaluate a patient who has had a sudden change in his neurological status, likely a stroke. You find him alert, mobile, and talking. But when you ...

Reading this book brought us straight back to the first time we encountered someone with aphasia; it was in a neurological rehabilitation center, the woman was 42, a native speaker of Mandarin. Now ...

Aphasia affects the speech, language processing and reading skills of about 2 million people in the United States, according to the American Stroke Association. The communication disorder occurs most ...

Difficulty finding words or the habit of substituting them with others that are similar semantically – such as knife and cutter – or phonologically – such as knife and wife – are usually the first ...

Communication classes at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center's Department of Audiology and Speech Pathology aid the progress of participants with communication disorders in a ...