MeSH tree: C10.597.606.150.500.800.100
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 to talk and to move ...
Apr 16, 2025
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A painless and non-invasive pulse of electrical stimulation to specific brain areas can ease some symptoms of post-stroke patients, though how it works remains a physiological mystery.
Mar 24, 2025
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A new study explains how a parakeet's brain helps it to mimic human words. By recording for the first time the brain activity of parakeets as they made sounds, a research team at NYU Grossman School of Medicine found that ...
Mar 19, 2025
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A new study shows how the brain reorganizes itself in the first few months after a stroke to improve the ability to speak again. The findings will help researchers understand how functional networks work in the brain. They ...
Feb 20, 2025
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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.
Feb 13, 2025
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Electroencephalography (EEG) may offer a more accessible alternative to functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) for guiding transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) when treating aphasia. Researchers from the Institute ...
Feb 6, 2025
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People with aphasia—a brain disorder affecting about a million people in the U.S.—struggle to turn their thoughts into words and comprehend spoken language.
Feb 6, 2025
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An international team of researchers, including scientists from the HSE Centre for Language and Brain, has identified the causes of impairments in expressing grammatical tense in people with aphasia. They discovered that ...
Jan 10, 2025
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Sleep is critical for all sorts of reasons, but a team of international scientists has discovered a new incentive for getting eight hours of sleep every night: it helps the brain to store and learn a new language.
Dec 5, 2024
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Imagine gradually losing the ability to express yourself—not because you've forgotten the words, but because they simply won't come out. This is the reality for individuals living with primary progressive aphasia (PPA), a ...
Nov 26, 2024
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