Bruce Willis's family plans to donate his brain for research into frontotemporal dementia, supported by a new fund to aid ...

Steven McDade is a guy who always has something positive to say, despite his challenges, but he hasn’t always been able to ...

A Huntington Park woman is being rewarded for her kindness after she found a missing 78-year-old woman with dementia who had ...

The medical system is great at treating the stroke, but who treats the marriage? In this moving episode of the Caregiver ...

A stroke can change your life in an instant. Symptoms come on suddenly. Facial drooping, arm weakness, or slurred speech can ...

Through the Stroke Hero Awards, the American Stroke Association highlights the powerful stories of survivors of stroke, caregivers and community champions.

Speaking to BBC Radio Gloucestershire, Satyam said that music stimulates many different areas of the brain because of the different elements like silence, loudness and pitch. She said music helps ...

A study led by a speech neuroscientist at The University of Texas at Dallas sheds light on how damage from stroke disrupts the brain mechanisms required for fluent speech. The research, published in ...

Steve Adubato sits down with Meredith Gemeiner, Social Services & Outreach Manager at Adler Aphasia Center, to shed light on the profound impact aphasia has on those living with this language disorder ...

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.

Imagine you’re a physician and you are called in to evaluate a patient who has had a sudden change in his neurological status, likely a stroke. You find him alert, mobile, and talking. But when you ...

Aphasia affects the speech, language processing and reading skills of about 2 million people in the United States, according to the American Stroke Association. The communication disorder occurs most ...