June marks Aphasia Awareness Month, a time dedicated to raising awareness about aphasia, a language disorder that affects communication abilities following brain damage, often due to stroke. Aphasia ...

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 ...

You might not put a lot of thought into what it takes to speak, but speaking keeps your brain busy. In every conversation, multiple regions activate to process sounds, give words meaning and control ...

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In a study designed to differentiate why some stroke patients recover from aphasia and others do not, investigators have found that a compensatory reorganization of language function to right ...

Singaporean author and advocate Terence Ang introduces ‘Brokenness Becomes Beautiful,’ a groundbreaking poetry ...

A new University of Sheffield research project that aims to improve communication between people with aphasia and their communication partners has been awarded over £3.8 million in funding A new ...