Professional beatboxers show greater activity in multiple areas of the brain when they listen to beatboxing clips. Expert guitarists also experience similar selective sensorimotor activity when they ...

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 ...

Aphasia, a language disorder arising from cerebral injury, has spurred the development of diverse treatment protocols targeting impaired word retrieval. Current interventions integrate ...

Boston University’s Center for Brain Research, which received a $3.2 million National Institutes of Health grant from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, is ...

Northwestern researchers have made notable scientific advancements in the past week. The Daily compiled a recap of their latest findings. NU scientists identified additional areas of the brain ...

Combining neck surgery with intensive speech therapy is associated with greater improvements in a person's ability to communicate after a stroke than intensive speech therapy alone, finds a clinical ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- They come from all walks of life – firefighter, author, nurse, bus driver and homemaker – but share the challenges of living with aphasia, a language disorder that affects the ...

Compared with standard intensive speech and language therapy (iSLT) alone, right-sided cervical C7 neurotomy combined with iSLT significantly improved language function in patients with chronic ...

More than 2 million people in the U.S. live with an incurable communication disorder known as aphasia, yet only 15% of the population has ever heard of the condition, according to a 2020 survey.

Glasgow stroke survivor Eileen Smith and CHSS call for greater aphasia awareness after Scottish Parliament debate highlights ...

Paramedic Richard Foster has been left to deal with the impact of aphasia - a communication disorder which affects speaking, understanding, reading and writing.

Combining neck surgery with intensive speech therapy is associated with greater improvements in a person's ability to communicate after a stroke than intensive speech therapy alone, finds a clinical ...