Aphasia is a condition that can affect a person's ability to communicate. To better understand the condition, the Mayo Clinic News Network reached out to Dr. Hugo Botha, a neurologist at Mayo Clinic, ...

Action-movie star Bruce Willis is stepping away from acting after being diagnosed with the brain disorder called aphasia, his family said Wednesday. The condition affects about 2 million Americans, ...

Expressive aphasia — which includes Broca’s aphasia — is when a person understands speech but has difficulty speaking fluently. Some people can say short phrases but leave out small words such as “the ...

Aphasia is a language disorder. It affects how you speak and understand language. People with aphasia might have trouble putting the right words together in a sentence, understanding what others say, ...

Misunderstandings and lack of information about aphasia can cause people to draw conclusions about cognitive ability, such as in the situation with Joe Biden, who has a history of stuttering.

(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 ...

Q: Why do people who have a stroke lose the ability to talk? All of a sudden my grandmother started mixing up her words, and that’s how we knew something serious was going on. What happens to you when ...

Aphasia and dysarthria both occur due to damage in the brain, but while aphasia causes difficulty in expressing and understanding speech, dysarthria causes difficulty controlling muscles necessary for ...

Dreams have been described as dress rehearsals for real life, opportunities to gratify wishes, and a form of nocturnal therapy. A new theory aims to make sense of it all. Misunderstandings and lack of ...

Bruce Willis was having cognitive issues on the set of his recent films, and was unable to remember his lines before his family stepped in “to take care of him,” a source told Page Six. On Wednesday, ...

THE subject of aphasia has always been, and still is, not only of the greatest interest, but also of the greatest difficulty. Its interest is, of course, largely due to the fact that a study of ...