It's been more than two years since Wendy Williams' stepped away from her beloved daytime talk show as she battled various health conditions. She's made a few public appearances since, but in April ...

In 2022, Bruce Willis was diagnosed with aphasia, forcing him to retire to focus on his health. Now, Wendy Williams has come forward to announce that she's dealing with the same issue. The news is ...

The image of Bruce Willis, an athletic and wise-cracking movie star, struggling to remember his lines is a tough one. Progressive aphasia is frightening for anyone, but when it afflicts an actor who ...

Frontotemporal lobar degeneration often presents with distinct language impairments that are associated with different distributions of cortical atrophy. Two studies have now demonstrated that these ...

News of actor Bruce Willis’ aphasia diagnosis sent shockwaves through Hollywood last week and put a spotlight on the relatively common — yet mostly unknown — language disorder. Willis’ family ...

Being able to communicate, from finding the right words to just being able to read and write, is something that most people take for granted. However, for those who suffer from aphasia — a cognitive ...

Although aphasia has been in the news lately, few people have more than a cursory understanding of the condition and how it affects the lives of the more than 2 million people in the U.S. who live ...

Bruce Willis’ family shared last week that he was one of the millions of people diagnosed each year with aphasia, an impairment that alters a person’s ability to speak or read Julie Mazziotta is the ...

The science of aging often speaks of "Alzheimer's disease and other dementias," with the devastating effects of late-onset Alzheimer's and its severe memory loss being the most common and well-known ...

Research projects at the UA are treating individuals with a disease that strips people of speech and memory after they suffer traumatic head injuries. Pelagie Beeson, professor of speech, language and ...

A rare brain disease that causes loss of language skills doesn't lead to memory loss, a new study finds. The condition is called primary progressive aphasia and about 40% of people who have it have ...

Living with aphasia has been compared to living in a country where you don’t speak the language. Gestures, sign language or other forms of communication may not be much help. And the people who want ...