A study led by a speech neuroscientist at The University of Texas at Dallas sheds light on how damage from stroke disrupts the brain mechanisms required for fluent speech. The research, published in ...

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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers analyzed 58 individuals with aphasia given transcranial direct current stimulation or sham treatment ...

DEAR DOCTORS: I suffered a stroke about a year ago and have completed outpatient rehab. I have been having a problem understanding speakers at an event. I hear the sounds but can’t understand all the ...

On this week’s show, we heard from a 39-year-old woman about a series of strokes she suffered seven years ago. It brought up a lot of questions about speech aphasia and how our brains bounce back from ...

Medical: loss or impairment of the power to use or comprehend words usually resulting from brain damage (as from a stroke, head injury, or infection) Aphasia, the cruel illness resulting from a stroke ...

Parchure, an Indian American doctoral student at Pennsylvania university, pilots an AI tool for personalizing speech therapy.

image: Pre- and post-treatment MK values along the core ILF from a representative participant are shown anatomically. The ILF bottleneck, which is marked with a black arrow, demonstrates an increase ...

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Aphasia is a condition caused by damage to certain areas of the brain that are involved in the processing of language. Damage to brain regions that control the ability to speak, write, understand and ...