When ABC journalist Bob Woodruff was injured while reporting in Iraq in 2006, he suffered severe head injuries that caused him to lose his ability to recall and produce common words — a condition ...

Aphasia is a disorder that results in loss of language, usually a result of damage to the parts of the brain that are responsible for language. According to the National Institute on Deafness and ...

Aphasia is a language disorder. It affects how you speak and understand language. People with aphasia might have trouble putting the right words together in a sentence, understanding what others say, ...

Global aphasia is a condition that results from extensive damage to the language-processing areas of the brain. It is the most severe form of aphasia. Treatment aims to improve language and ...

(Bravo via Getty Images) Being able to communicate, from finding the right words to just being able to read and write, is something that most people take for granted. However, for those who suffer ...

BOSTON (CBS) -- The family of actor Bruce Willis announced Wednesday that the Hollywood star is "stepping away" from his award-winning career because of a recent aphasia diagnosis. "To Bruce's amazing ...