Welcome to the Brain Health Revolution podcast with your hosts, Aisha and Dean Sharesai.

We are so glad to be back with another episode.

Recently, we were quite saddened by the news of Bruce Willis being diagnosed with aphasia,

and in this episode, Dean and I discuss the definition of this condition, its consequences, and

management.

Hope you find this episode informative, and we're sending much love to the Willis family,

who is going through a very difficult time right now.

Thank you for joining us.

Today, we decided to talk about one of the items that has been highlighted in the news, which is Bruce Willis' diagnosis with aphasia.

And we were saddened by it. I mean, he's been a very prominent figure in the movies and in our lives.

I mean, we can just name movies, remember his character and how it influenced

the community and the society. And so he was diagnosed with aphasia. Initially, it was very

vague because aphasia in itself is a very, a broad term.

Yeah, it's not a, you couldn't even call it a disease. It's a symptom. It's a, it means basically a disorder of

language. Exactly. And there are so many different ways that you can approach this disease or I, or get the

phasia symptomology. It could be from a vascular phenomenon such as stroke. It could happen as a result of

a degenerative process, which we'll talk about, such as frontotemporal lobe

dementia as a variant of it, or it could be as a result of trauma to the head or some inflammatory

process. So a lot of ways that people could get aphasia. So when they said ephasia, it really wasn't

that content filled. We didn't have that much information.

But it's becoming a little more clear from the stories.

I mean, and People magazine and others, we've seen family speak about the progressive nature of it.

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