C7 neurotomy added to standard speech therapy enhances language recovery in patients with chronic post-stroke aphasia, a randomized trial suggests.

June is Aphasia Awareness month, and a man from Pulaski County is bringing awareness to aphasia, a language disorder, after ...

Aphasia is a disorder that affects a person's ability to retrieve language. It's as if their brain's word cabinet has fallen over and mixed their words around, resulting in varying levels and ...

Featured Fluent or receptive aphasia (Wernicke’s aphasia). With this type of aphasia, you’re able to physically speak, but others might not understand what you say.

Depending on the area of damage, aphasia can manifest as Wernicke's or Broca's aphasia. Treatment options include speech and language therapy, focusing on alternative communication methods like ...

Wernicke's Area Another part of the brain associated with aphasia is Wernicke's area, discovered by Carl Wernicke, who observed patients with a condition called receptive aphasia, where ...

HYDERABAD: Wendy Williams, a 59-year-old former talk show host in the US, was recently diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia, which is a communication diso ...

Expressive aphasia (sometimes called Broca’s or nonfluent aphasia) is when people are better at understanding others than they are at speaking. They often struggle to get words out or speak in phrases ...

Fluent aphasia generally develops from damage to the temporal lobe, and can result in a common form of the condition called Wernicke’s aphasia, which may cause a person to have trouble ...

Expressive aphasia, also known as Broca’s or non-fluent aphasia, allows a person to understand what people are saying but makes it difficult for the person to speak themselves.