A new study from UC San Francisco challenges the traditional view of how the brain strings sounds together to form words and ...

Speaking requires a precise sequence of muscle movements, long thought to be coordinated by Broca’s area in the brain.

If there is an injury to the Broca area, communication breaks down between a person’s thoughts and language abilities. Less commonly, brain surgery can cause Broca’s aphasia as a complication.

Researchers create a comprehensive cellular atlas of the Broca’s area in the brain. Download PDF Copy; Reviewed. Reviewed by Megan Craig, M.Sc. Oct 12 2023.

Broca's area has always been viewed as very important for the articulation of speech, but until now its precise role was unclear. We found that rather than carrying out the articulation of speech, ...

Damage to multiple language-processing areas of the brain can lead to global aphasia. According to a 2023 study , with global aphasia, lesions occur in the left middle cerebral artery distribution ...

For most neurologically healthy adults, language processing is considered a "left brain" function that relies on undamaged neural matter in the left cerebral hemisphere's Broca's area.However, for ...

Broca’s aphasia. Broca's aphasia is ... For example, your doctor might recommend steroids for lesions in some areas of your brain that are causing aphasia symptoms. Speech therapy.