Anomic aphasia is a language disorder that involves difficulty finding or recalling the word a person wants to use. A person’s language comprehension, grammar, and fluency tend to remain intact.

Boston University’s Center for Brain Research, which received a $3.2 million National Institutes of Health grant from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, is ...

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) may augment standard language therapy to help slow the progression of primary progressive aphasia (PPA), a neurodegenerative disorder that erodes communication.

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — Demetrios Hadjisimos is recovering from a stroke, and he’s working hard to get stronger. “My body works perfect,” Hadjisimos said. But he’s quick to point out his mouth sometimes ...

In a study that challenges the conventional boundary between biological cognition and artificial intelligence, researchers from The University of Tokyo have found that the internal processing patterns ...

Imagine seeing a furry, four-legged animal that meows. Mentally, you know what it is, but the word "cat" is stuck on the tip of your tongue. This phenomenon, known as Broca's aphasia or expressive ...

Restoring some language for aphasia sufferers, like Bruce Willis and a million other Americans, could involve AI. Brain activity like this, measured in an fMRI machine, can be used to train a brain ...

A new AI-based tool can translate a person's thoughts into continuous text, without requiring the person to comprehend spoken words. This latest advance suggests it may be possible, with further ...

People with aphasia-a brain disorder affecting about a million people in the U.S.-struggle to turn their thoughts into words and comprehend spoken language. A pair of researchers at The University of ...