Broca's aphasia is a specific subtype of expressive aphasia. It is often caused by damage to the brain's left frontal lobe, impacting speech production but leaving comprehension intact.

Imagine seeing a furry, four-legged animal that meows. Mentally, you know what it is, but the word "cat" is stuck on the tip of your tongue. This phenomenon, known as Broca's aphasia or expressive ...

Persons with global aphasia can neither read nor write. 2) Broca’s aphasia—in this form of aphasia speech output is severely reduced and limited mainly to short utterances of less than four words.

This finding opens the door for a possible new treatment for Broca’s Aphasia, a language disorder caused by damage to the frontal lobe which affects a person’s ability to communicate.

This phenomenon, known as Broca's aphasia or expressive aphasia, is a language disorder that affects a person's ability to speak or write. While the current go-to treatment is speech therapy ...

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Jiyeon Lee is an Associate Professor of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences and the director of the Aphasia Recovery Lab at Purdue University. She received her PhD in Communication Sciences and ...

People who've had strokes or traumatic brain injuries often live with aphasia: difficulty using language, both written and spoken. But music mostly originates in the undamaged hemisphere of the brain.

But Broca's aphasia, which most often affects people after a stroke or brain tumor, results from damage to the frontal lobe of the brain, where speech production and parts of language are processed.