June is National Aphasia Awareness Month, and more than 2.5 million Americans – including actor Bruce Willis and country music star Randy Travis – suffer from the communication impairment. Aphasia ...

National charity Say Aphasia has launched a fortnightly drop-in group in Bromsgrove for those affected by aphasia, a condition often caused by brain injury or stroke. The group meets on the first and ...

An international team of researchers, including scientists from the HSE Centre for Language and Brain, has identified the causes of impairments in expressing grammatical tense in people with aphasia.

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.

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 ...

Agnosia and aphasia are two neurological conditions that can begin after a brain injury. Aphasia causes problems in expressing and understanding language. Agnosia causes problems with identifying ...