This is stroke awareness month. One possible long-term complication of stroke is aphasia. The disorder gained awareness when Bruce Willis was diagnosed. Aphasia is a language disorder that occurs when ...

Aphasia came to the forefront of conversation Wednesday after actor Bruce Willis announced he had the condition, but it’s something Julius Fridriksson has been intimately familiar with for years. As ...

Emily Burguieres Dalicandro will be the chair for Houston Aphasia Recovery Center’s (HARC) 7th Annual “Let’s Talk” Luncheon. For the 43,000 Houstonians living with aphasia, a loss of language due to a ...

image: Pre- and post-treatment MK values along the core ILF from a representative participant are shown anatomically. The ILF bottleneck, which is marked with a black arrow, demonstrates an increase ...

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - Inside Texas Tech’s Maedgen Theatre, the finishing touches are put on an upcoming show it is part of a two-week camp. It is for people recovering from strokes or living with ...

Tom Cariveau set a basket full of pamphlets on the table. "This is my homework basket," he said. Cariveau, 54, Grand Forks, isn't completing homework for a grade. It's part of his recovery. Nov. 8, ...

Action-movie star Bruce Willis is stepping away from acting after being diagnosed with the brain disorder called aphasia, his family said Wednesday. The condition affects about 2 million Americans, ...

Language disturbances (aphasia) are common after stroke and can manifest as difficulty identifying the correct word to use (semantic problems) and/or difficulty pronouncing words (phonemic problems).