Aphasia occurs when a brain disorder affects a person’s language abilities, such as speaking, reading, and writing. The type of aphasia a person has depends on where damage occurs in the brain.

Anomic aphasia is a language disorder that involves difficulty finding or recalling the word a person wants to use. A person’s language comprehension, grammar, and fluency tend to remain intact.

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 ...

Language is central to how we think, relate and exist in the world. Speech involves the ability to use movements of the tongue, lips, jaw muscles and vocal tract to produce sounds. Aphasia (sometimes ...

In a study that challenges the conventional boundary between biological cognition and artificial intelligence, researchers from The University of Tokyo have found that the internal processing patterns ...

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, ...

4 Beijing Key Laboratory of Translational Medicine for Cerebrovascular Disease, Beijing, China 5 State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning and IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain ...

Aphasia patients struggle with encoding or retrieval of verb tenses, and the difficulty depends on their language structure Greek and Italian speakers face encoding challenges, while Russian and ...

Background and Purpose—We aimed to determine if ischemia involving Broca area predicts Broca aphasia more reliably in acute or chronic stroke. Methods—We included consecutive right-hand-dominant ...

Migraine episodes are mostly known for causing pain and discomfort, but they can also sometimes have neurological (brain-related) effects, including aphasia. Migraine headaches are intense headaches ...