Aphasia is a communication disorder that makes it hard to use words. It can affect your speech, writing, and ability to understand language. Aphasia results from damage or injury to parts of the brain ...

What are the seven A’s of Alzheimer’s? Through Alzheimer’s screenings, clinicians often refer to a list of symptoms known as the seven A’s, which are anosognosia, agnosia, aphasia, apraxia, altered ...

Apraxia is a group of neurological disorders with multiple symptoms. However, not all doctors agree on which symptoms belong to which disorder. After a retired speech-language pathologist had a stroke ...

It may start with a simple word you can't pronounce. Your tongue and lips stumble, and gibberish comes out. Misspeaking might draw a chuckle from family and friends. But, then, it keeps happening.

Before what she and her husband call their "one bad day," Christine Patten was a director at a global law firm and an expert communicator. Now, Patten, 54, struggles to describe what happened after ...

Bruce Willis is stepping away from acting. The 67-year-old actor, well known for his roles in the Die Hard series, The Sixth Sense, Pulp Fiction, as well as many others, has recently been diagnosed ...

Apraxia of Speech is a form of oral motor speech disorder that affects a person’s ability to communicate conscious speech plans into motor plans. A person may therefore be aware of the words they ...

More than 24 lakh people around in our country suffer from some kind of mental health disorder that comes under Alzheimer’s disease. Majority of people do not take mental health diseases seriously and ...

Do Parents know what apraxia is? Apraxia is a neurological condition in which the person experiencing it will find it difficult, or even unable to perform certain motor movements. This disorder may be ...

Bruce Willis will be “stepping away” from his acting career after he was diagnosed with aphasia, his family has announced. According to the actor’s wife, Emma Heming Willis, who shared the news on ...