Gesture communication is increasingly recognised as a vital compensatory strategy in aphasia rehabilitation. Aphasia, most commonly arising from stroke-related brain injuries, impairs verbal ...

If you’ve ever played Charades, you have some idea of what patients with aphasia go through. Life is a continual pantomime — using gestures but no words to communicate. Stroke survivors with aphasia ...

Bruce Willis’ early dementia signs were dismissed, since he struggled with stuttering as a child. When asked what his early symptoms were, as the actor battles with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and ...

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 ...

Abu Dhabi, UAE — Cerebrolysin, a porcine-derived collection of growth factors already employed for a broad array of neurodegenerative disorders in Asia and Eastern Europe, was effective for ...

The country music star Randy Travis just released his first new song in over a decade titled “Where That Came From.” The song marks his first new studio recording since a near-fatal stroke in 2013 ...