Short but intensive rounds of speech therapy may be better for restoring language skills lost to a stroke than traditional methods. Researchers found stroke survivors who had difficulty speaking or ...

Stroke patients who struggle to communicate may regain their abilities by singing in a choir, a new study suggests. Music therapy is not a new concept, but the use of singing – particularly choral ...

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 ...

image: Pre- and post-treatment MK values along the core ILF from a representative participant are shown anatomically. The ILF bottleneck, which is marked with a black arrow, demonstrates an increase ...

(Reuters Health) - Even months after a stroke, survivors can make major strides in communication and quality of life with intensive speech therapy, a recent study in Germany suggests. After 15 hours a ...

Lucy Mulloor woke up one morning and realized something was terribly wrong. The 45-year-old single-mom could hear her two daughters in the kitchen but couldn't call out to them. She'd lost the ability ...

In an article in Brain, researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) and elsewhere report which brain regions must be intact in stroke survivors with aphasia if they are to perform ...

Sarah Northcott receives funding from The Stroke Association. This research was funded by the Jack and Averil (Mansfield) Bradley Fellowship Award for Stroke Research. Aphasia can be a difficult and ...