The care team for Wendy Williams announced that the TV personality and show host was diagnosed in 2023 with primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia. The statement from her team on ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: About a year ago, my 77-year-old wife started to have some trouble speaking, and in some cases remembering or forming words. It’s not so bad that you don’t understand her and it’s not ...

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 ...

Expressive aphasia can happen after brain damage and may affect your ability to speak or write. A few signs include using short phrases and substituting words with similar sounds or meanings.

Aphasia affects the speech, language processing and reading skills of about 2 million people in the United States, according to the American Stroke Association. The communication disorder occurs most ...

Representatives for the former daytime talk show host announced her diagnoses two days before the release of a two-part documentary about her health issues. By Amanda Holpuch and Dani Blum Wendy ...