But Broca's aphasia, which most often affects people after a stroke or brain tumor, results from damage to the frontal lobe of the brain, where speech production and parts of language are processed.

It's also not a straightforward diagnosis — for some patients, aphasia develops after a traumatic brain injury, while for others, it's a sign of a degenerative brain condition. Here, Dr. Prin ...

Doctors can often detect aphasia via either an MRI or CT scan, and will be able to pinpoint the exact part of the brain that is causing the issue. There is no way to fix or cure the condition ...

"I chose to work very hard to open up other parts of my mind ... "I was suffering from a condition called aphasia, a consequence of the trauma my brain had suffered," she said in a 2019 essay ...

A patient who sustained aphasia due to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis has regained the ability to communicate after receiving a brain-machine interface implant, a hospital in Beijing announced on ...

Friday, 4th of April, 2025 is the world’s first awareness day for Primary Progressive Aphasia. Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA) results from gradual damage / degeneration in the language area of ...

ANOTHER PART OF HER BRAIN, DOCTOR MILLER SAYS ... But, that was before she was diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia, a type of dementia. "The remarkable thing about [PPA] is that it tends ...