A study has found that a six-week acupuncture treatment significantly improved language function, quality of life, and neurological impairment in people with speech difficulties following a stroke.

Ellyn Riley, Ph.D., is principal investigator in the Aphasia Research Lab at Syracuse University. Can you define “aphasia”? Sixty percent of people cannot, according to a 2022 Aphasia Awareness Survey ...

Compared with standard intensive speech and language therapy (iSLT) alone, right-sided cervical C7 neurotomy combined with iSLT significantly improved language function in patients with chronic ...

Boston University’s Center for Brain Research, which received a $3.2 million National Institutes of Health grant from the ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My mom had a stroke recently and is really struggling with her speech. She’s in speech therapy, but could you please tell me more about this side effect of a stroke? ANSWER: Aphasia ...

A new study at The University of Texas at Dallas could help researchers better understand how a stroke can affect the speech and language areas of the brain. It could also help diagnose aphasia — or ...

Dear Doctors: A man I have been dating had a stroke a few weeks ago, and now he has aphasia. When I visit him at the rehab, he’s ready for me to leave after a short time. Is this normal? He seems to ...

The Cognitive Recovery Lab at the Georgetown University Medical Center presented their new findings — at the Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia in Japan Oct. 20 — that depression in patients with ...

September 22, 2010 (San Francisco, California) — A pilot study of a novel treatment for poststroke aphasia suggests repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) may help prevent activation of ...