When ABC journalist Bob Woodruff was injured while reporting in Iraq in 2006, he suffered severe head injuries that caused him to lose his ability to recall and produce common words — a condition ...

There, Wilson studied 27 patients who all had primary-progressive aphasia, an incurable language deficit. His research is now being analyzed here at the UA.

Similarly, adult patients with Broca's aphasia who engage in an intensive course of music-based speech therapy showed increases in fiber number and volume of the AF, [49] the frontal-temporal ...

Given the connections between frontal and temporal regions, these anatomical pathways may serve to integrate sensory information with motor planning, preparation and action areas that is crucial for ...

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 ...

Aphasia has many forms, severities, and causes. Aphasia refers to all aspects of language, including talking, listening, reading, writing, and sign language. Aphasia does not refer to difficulty wi… ...

New research suggests that listening to vocal music can kickstart language recovery after stroke more successfully than listening to audiobooks, because music encourages neuroplasticity in the ...

Aphasia is a language disorder that can affect a person’s use of language. It can impact their ability to speak, to understand, to read and to write, but not necessarily all of these. It often happens ...

The standard of care for patients with aphasia has been intense behavioral therapy - reading and repeating words and sounds. But a new area is opening up that looks at medication to augment the ...