C7 neurotomy added to standard speech therapy enhances language recovery in patients with chronic post-stroke aphasia, a randomized trial suggests.

People with non-fluent aphasia are usually aware of their communication difficulties because their cognition and comprehension are mostly intact. Wernicke (fluent) aphasia.

Depending on the area of damage, aphasia can manifest as Wernicke's or Broca's aphasia. Treatment options include speech and language therapy, focusing on alternative communication methods like ...

Wernicke's Area Another part of the brain associated with aphasia is Wernicke's area, discovered by Carl Wernicke, who observed patients with a condition called receptive aphasia, where ...

Expressive aphasia is one of the most frustrating language deficits a patient can have because they know what they want to say but struggle to convey it to those around them. Adapting to a deficit ...

HYDERABAD: Wendy Williams, a 59-year-old former talk show host in the US, was recently diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia, which is a communication diso ...

It mimics Wernicke’s aphasia, with comprehension challenges and fluent speech patterns that are composed of random words and phrases. Like those with Wernicke’s, patients with this type of aphasia may ...

The case is an 88-year-old, woman, formerly a successful surgeon for decades, with Wernicke's aphasia due to dominant insular stroke. Our evaluation explored her deficits in the context of the ...

Whether you're shaping words with your mouth, signing them with your hands, or writing them on paper, the bulk of the work is going on up in your noggin. By determining what has been lost or ...

“In the womb and early after birth, neurons are just developing and connections are just forming, so with any stroke during that time, the brain has a massive ability to reorganize and rewire ...