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 ...

Actor Bruce Willis, whose one-liners are a mainstay of blockbuster action movies, is stepping away from his career due to a diagnosis of aphasia, a neurological disorder that impacts language and ...

But what if this moment was magnified? This fleeting frustration now pervades your every interaction, muddling your thoughts and tangling your tongue. For every word there is only gibberish. Or, even ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My mom had a stroke recently and is really struggling with her speech. She’s in speech therapy, but could you please tell me more about this side effect of a stroke? ANSWER: Aphasia ...

Aphasia is a disorder that results in loss of language, usually due to damage to the parts of the brain responsible for language. According to the National Institute on Deafness and Other ...

What's behind the verbal difficulties, short-term memory loss, and personality changes that have affected this 63-year-old man for about 10 years? That is what Shifu Xiao, MD, PhD, of Shanghai Jiao ...