Bruce Willis's struggle with aphasia, announced by his family Wednesday, has shed light on a little-known condition that has many possible causes.
CHICAGO -- It would be easy to think of Bruce Willis as indestructible; that is, after all, the image the movie star cultivated for so many years on the big screen.
"It's a language disorder, or a loss of language. An individual with aphasia is going to have difficulty communicating verbally," explained Michelle Armour, program lead clinician at the Northwestern Medicine Aphasia Center at Marianjoy. "No matter what, it's a devastating impact on the person's life," Armour said."The inability to communicate can affect our social relationships, our personal relationships with family.""It's common to have aphasias after a stroke because that's one of the most common forms of brain disease, but really any type of brain disease, if it affects the language networks in the brain it can cause aphasia," said Dr.
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