There are ways to reduce your risk of having a stroke — for example, you can exercise more and not smoke. But should a stroke occur, you might also be able to reduce your risk of losing brain function ...

When a stroke affects the language areas in the left side of the brain, the right side takes over and learns how to perform language tasks, according to research at Washington University School of ...

You might not put a lot of thought into what it takes to speak, but speaking keeps your brain busy. In every conversation, multiple regions activate to process sounds, give words meaning and control ...

After a stroke, people can lose the ability to speak or even understand language. This can be treated with therapy, but if therapy is started too late it might not work. Now, researchers in Finland ...

Imaging all of the brain's connections after stroke in addition to imaging only the areas of cortical tissue damage could better predict which patients will have language deficits and how severe those ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Babies’ stroke-damaged brains can pull a mirror trick to recover. A stroke on the left side of the brain often damages important language-processing areas. But people who have this ...

Use of inhibitory transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) over the speech area in the right side of the brain significantly improved language recovery in patients with stroke, new research shows. "The ...

When a person suddenly loses the ability to speak or to understand what others are saying, the hardships that cascade from that loss can be overwhelming - from the seemingly trite to the devastatingly ...

Stroke is the third leading cause of death in the United States Stroke is the leading cause of long-term disability in the United States About 795,000 people have a stroke each year About 25-40 ...

We've all been there: the tip-of-the-tongue moment when you know you have the word in your head, but it just won't come out. Momentary lapses of memory are common in most of us, but for stroke victims ...