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 ...

Anomic aphasia involves difficulty finding the right word when speaking or writing. Learn more about its causes, diagnosis, and treatment options here.

Imagine you’re a physician and you are called in to evaluate a patient who has had a sudden change in his neurological status, likely a stroke. You find him alert, mobile, and talking. But when you ...

How does the brain manage to catch the drift of a mumbled sentence or a flat, robotic voice? A new study led by researchers ...

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Expressive aphasia makes it hard to speak clearly, even though people can understand speech. Speech therapy can help improve communication skills for those with expressive aphasia. Expressive aphasia ...

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Abstract: Stroke, a leading contributor to mortality and disability in China, significantly impacts language skills such as speaking, listening, reading, writing, and communication in a considerable ...

Abstract: Aphasia, a brain injury-related linguistic problem, hinders communication. Current techniques generally struggle to handle aphasic speech’s intricacies. BERT, short for Bidirectional Encoder ...

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