Gabby Giffords represented Arizona’s 8th District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2007 to 2012. With the recent news that Bruce Willis has been diagnosed with aphasia, many people are ...

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.

Medical: loss or impairment of the power to use or comprehend words usually resulting from brain damage (as from a stroke, head injury, or infection) Aphasia, the cruel illness resulting from a stroke ...

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, ...

Deborah Hersh is a member of research teams that receive funding from the NHMRC. She volunteers as chairperson of the not-for-profit Australian Aphasia Association and is an affiliate of the CRE ...

Cerebrovascular accidents, or strokes, are the most common cause of aphasia, a speech disorder of cerebral origin. People with aphasia have a reduced ability to understand or produce speech or written ...

A wooden tower stands in the forest north of Lake Tahoe, taller than some trees around it. It’s the centerpiece of an imposing ropes course at Sierra Nevada Journeys, where the Department of Speech ...

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, ...

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 ...

A study led by a speech neuroscientist at The University of Texas at Dallas sheds light on how damage from stroke disrupts the brain mechanisms required for fluent speech. The research, published in ...