Wernicke’s aphasia is when you can’t understand words. Learn more about what causes it, what to expect, and more.

Wernicke's aphasia is a language disorder caused by damage to Wernicke's area in the brain. Learn about what causes it, what to expect, and more.

Following Bruce Willis news, CT speech pathologist clarifies that aphasia and dementia not the same By Amanda Cuda , Associate Editor, The Stamford Advocate and Greenwich Time Updated April 12 ...

Wernicke's aphasia is the most common type of fluent aphasia. Those afflicted often speak in long sentences that don't make sense. They may add unnecessary words or made-up words, ...

In Wernicke’s, or fluent, aphasia, patients speak very smoothly and use function words and normal rhythm (prosody), but what they say does not make any sense.

When news broke on March 30 that Bruce Willis is retiring from acting (at least for the time being) because of aphasia, it may have been the first time many people had heard of the condition. For ...

Unlike Wernicke’s aphasia, Broca’s aphasia does not cause difficulty understanding what others are trying to say, and people are aware of their symptoms. Global aphasia .

Aphasia has threatened to rob film fans of Hollywood’s most die-hard action hero. On Wednesday, Bruce Willis announced he is stepping away from acting amid his life-changing diagnosis with the ...

Byron Peterson, 80, who developed Wernicke’s aphasia as the result of a stroke, inspired a character in “The Ice Road,” a Netflix film starring Liam Neeson released in late June.

In contrast to Broca’s aphasia, those with damage to an area in the temporal lobe (the side portion of the brain) exhibit a condition known as Wernicke’s aphasia, named after the German ...