The Cognitive Recovery Lab at the Georgetown University Medical Center presented their new findings — at the Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia in Japan Oct. 20 — that depression in patients with ...

After suffering a stroke that left her with Wernicke’s Aphasia, June Steenkamp now navigates a life shaped by profound loss, ...

In 1983, Howard Blatt was a middle-aged married father working as an electrical engineer at MIT when he collapsed in his kitchen. He'd had a stroke. That health catastrophe left him with a paralyzed ...

MARIETTA – Many people finish school, look and settle into jobs and careers, land promotions, get married, travel and have children in their 20s. And in 2011, Marietta native Christine Huggins was no ...

Compared with standard intensive speech and language therapy (iSLT) alone, right-sided cervical C7 neurotomy combined with iSLT significantly improved language function in patients with chronic ...

Combining neck surgery with intensive speech therapy is associated with greater improvements in a person's ability to communicate after a stroke than intensive speech therapy alone, finds a clinical ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Imagine having a stroke or suffering a brain injury, and losing your ability to say your own name. That's the reality for people living with the communication disorder aphasia, ...