When ABC journalist Bob Woodruff was injured while reporting in Iraq in 2006, he suffered severe head injuries that caused him to lose his ability to recall and produce common words — a condition ...

(Bravo via Getty Images) Being able to communicate, from finding the right words to just being able to read and write, is something that most people take for granted. However, for those who suffer ...

After a stroke, people can lose the ability to speak or even understand language. This can be treated with therapy, but if therapy is started too late it might not work. Now, researchers in Finland ...

Bruce Willis’ family shared last week that he was one of the millions of people diagnosed each year with aphasia, an impairment that alters a person’s ability to speak or read Julie Mazziotta is the ...

Compared with standard intensive speech and language therapy (iSLT) alone, right-sided cervical C7 neurotomy combined with iSLT significantly improved language function in patients with chronic ...

Aphasia affects two million Americans, according to the National Aphasia Association (NAA), but a 2016 survey from the organization found that less than nine percent of respondents knew what the ...

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 ...