After a stroke or brain injury, many people have trouble talking. One type of communication disorder that's common after brain damage is expressive aphasia. With this condition, you generally ...

Expressive aphasia — which includes Broca’s aphasia — is when a person understands speech but has difficulty speaking fluently. Some people can say short phrases but leave out small words such as “the ...

Oh, um, excuse me. Did you catch what I said? Fans of the hit HBO show "Game of Thrones," the fifth season of which premieres this Sunday, know what I’m referencing, anyway. Hodor is the brawny, ...

Imagine seeing a furry, four-legged animal that meows. Mentally, you know what it is, but the word "cat" is stuck on the tip of your tongue. This phenomenon, known as Broca's aphasia or expressive ...

Misunderstandings and lack of information about aphasia can cause people to draw conclusions about cognitive ability, such as in the situation with Joe Biden, who has a history of stuttering.

A little-known condition called aphasia has been in headlines recently, after American actor Bruce Willis said on Wednesday that he is stepping away from acting following his diagnosis of the disorder ...

“Thoughts That Can’t Be Spoken,” by Alberto Manguel (Sunday Review, March 9), is a wonderfully insightful essay. The disconnect between thoughts and spoken words that he describes is called aphasia.

Aphasia is a common consequence of a stroke which affects language processing. In search of an objective biomarker for aphasia, we used EEG to investigate how functional network patterns in the cortex ...

SINGAPORE: When Nicholas Tan woke up after a six-day induced coma, he wanted to tell his parents: “Daddy, Mummy, love me.” But no matter how hard he tried, he could not put it into words. “No voice,” ...