Study design: Case report of autonomic dysreflexia presenting with transient aphasia in a subject with C4 tetraplegia. Objectives: To report a rare case of autonomic dysreflexia. Setting: ...

Do you know someone with an invisible illness? You probably do but have no idea because they don’t look sick. Each week, our series looks at a different person, with a different illness to show what ...

Language therapy may help a person recover from aphasia. Some people may have a partial recovery, while others may recover fully. The time it takes to recover from aphasia can vary for each person.

A 72-year-old woman presents to an emergency department (ED) in Denver, with confusion and aphasia. She has been sent from a nursing home, where she is receiving treatment for an acute kidney injury, ...

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 ...

Wernicke’s aphasia is a language disorder that makes it hard for you to understand words and communicate. This disorder is caused by damage to the part of your brain that controls language. It leads ...

Expressive aphasia — which includes Broca’s aphasia — is when a person understands speech but has difficulty speaking fluently. Some people can say short phrases but leave out small words such as “the ...

Stroke and brain injury manifest in several ways, sometimes obviously – in difficulty enunciating words or retrieving them in conversation – sometimes subtly. My mother’s stroke left her with pure ...

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 ...

People who have aphasia can have trouble with things like speaking, reading, or listening. Research estimates about 1 million people in the United States are living with aphasia. There are two ...

A 39-year-old woman presents with a 4-day history of severe headaches. On the morning of admission, she developed confusion and generalized malaise. A few hours later, she noted right-sided weakness ...

Because the superior sagittal sinus did not enhance normally, MR venography (not shown) and subsequent conventional angiography (not shown) are performed and are consistent with superior sagittal ...