Christopher Durang, one of American theater’s most accomplished and acclaimed playwrights, has been diagnosed with logopenic primary progressive aphasia (PPA), a rare disorder of language which, ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. According to the Weill Institute For Neurosciences, persons with logopenic variant ...

The image of Bruce Willis, an athletic and wise-cracking movie star, struggling to remember his lines is a tough one. Progressive aphasia is frightening for anyone, but when it afflicts an actor who ...

DEMENTIA has evolved into many different forms of cognitive deficit, and the "atypical" forms of the disease are starting to gain more recognition. These types of cognitive decline, however, tend to ...

More than 140,000 Australians are living with aphasia. Yet, the disorder is not widely understood and scientists are working to learn more about the cognitive condition. Celebrities who have spoken ...