What are the seven A’s of Alzheimer’s? Through Alzheimer’s screenings, clinicians often refer to a list of symptoms known as the seven A’s, which are anosognosia, agnosia, aphasia, apraxia, altered ...

Bruce Willis is stepping away from acting. The 67-year-old actor, well known for his roles in the Die Hard series, The Sixth Sense, Pulp Fiction, as well as many others, has recently been diagnosed ...

Apraxia is a group of neurological disorders with multiple symptoms. However, not all doctors agree on which symptoms belong to which disorder. After a retired speech-language pathologist had a stroke ...

More than 24 lakh people around in our country suffer from some kind of mental health disorder that comes under Alzheimer’s disease. Majority of people do not take mental health diseases seriously and ...

Before what she and her husband call their "one bad day," Christine Patten was a director at a global law firm and an expert communicator. Now, Patten, 54, struggles to describe what happened after ...

It may start with a simple word you can't pronounce. Your tongue and lips stumble, and gibberish comes out. Misspeaking might draw a chuckle from family and friends. But, then, it keeps happening.

In March, the family of Bruce Willis, the actor best known for his roles in the Die Hard films, announced that he would be “stepping away” from his acting career after being diagnosed with aphasia.

Apraxia of Speech is a form of oral motor speech disorder that affects a person’s ability to communicate conscious speech plans into motor plans. A person may therefore be aware of the words they ...