Bruce Willis' Aphasia Diagnosis | NEUROLOGIST explains

In this video, I discuss aphasia and the different neurological causes of aphasia. My deepest sympathies go out to Bruce Willis and his family for this devastating diagnosis.

[auburnmedicalgroup]

Great summary of aphasia with an appropriate expression of sympathy for Bruce and his family. Rather than make a video going over the same material (although not as eloquently), I will give my viewers a link to this video. Keep up the good work.

[classiccinemac]

Hello NeuroGal! It’s Mac! Thanks so much for explaining this. This is a neurological issue that definitely needs care immediately as you’ve explained some of the results of the issue. It definitely breaks my heart to have heard Bruce Willis’ diagnosis 😕 Really loved him in films like Die Hard, The Sixth Sense, Pulp Fiction, etc. Absolutely sending my best recovery for Bruce Willis during this time 🙏

[benrast]

While I’ve had total seizure control for the last few years (left temporal lobe epilepsy), my partial complex seizures are marked by transient aphasia. I maintain an awareness of what’s going on around me, and I can even open and close my mouth. But I just can’t make words come out. My speech returns gradually through the postictal phase. SO glad I have seizure control now.

[notsparks]

I just found your channel and oddly enough it was this video that brought me. I suffered from a rapid onset of aphasia about 10 years ago as a result of something not mentioned. I am told it was a result of sepsis. I was in icu 5 months due to hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis. During this period I contracted sepsis leading to acute liver and kidney failure. It was incredibly frustrating because in my head everything I would try to say was fine. It came out completely wrong. And it was like a light switch. I was having a conversation with my partner and mid conversation just stopped making sense. It remained this way over a month. I am told about a week and a half in I had a moment of intense clarity (fear about an upcoming surgery to remove my spleen which I wanted to cancel because i understood it was very risky and was a high likelihood I wouldn't survive) and the nurse was so surprised she called the overnight doc who ordered some sedatives and sat and chatted with me until they kicked in telling me I wouldn't make it if I put off the surgery and they were going to take excellent care of me. I was kept on ventilation for 18 days after and during time started dialysis. When I was removed from ventilation and out of medical induced coma I was speaking fine. I don't remember most of the time but remember that I understood and can recall a number of conversations had around me but when I tried to speak it wasn't words that came out.

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Thank you for the clear and informative explanation of aphasia. My grandmother was dealing with the effects of this disorder, so your video is very appreciated. Even if someone doesn't personally know anyone affected, providing information on neurological conditions is still immensely useful as these issues may unfortunately arise at a later point in anyone's life.

[bobbydirani]

Thank you for your videos. My father has been diagnosed with PCA (Benson syndrome). He’s now in the late stages. Would you mind doing a video on PCA? Thank you

[French-Kiss]

I experienced aphasia once as a result of medication. It was the oddest experience. I knew what I wanted to say. It was like a vague sort of cloud in the back of the brain somewhere. Then it felt like that cloud attached itself to a track that moves from the back of the brain to the front. It was moving very slowly, trying to get the words attached to the cloud of meaning that was on this track. Ultimately, the words couldn’t catch up; however, the concept was inside the brain. So please understand that the conceptualization is there. A patient with aphasia can think whole thoughts, he/she just can’t get the words to attach to the meaning.

[Machete_Kissed_Ya]

It's so sad an tragic. Bruce always was the strong hero in his films and such a good actor. He was voted for the sexiest actor alive two times. I also had a crush on him.
In our society now with his illness he lost all that. I'm sad about it and not sure if I would let the publicity know if I had this. On the one site it's enlightenment, on the other side he makes himself, or better they make him vulnerable and steal his hero beeing in peoples head.
(Don't know if I chose the right words, I'm no native English speaker, sorry for that.)

[JamesBrown-hsvg]

I always love your videos and can’t wait for new ones to come out

[zaferalabbas]

Great video as always!! What are your thoughts on Melodic Intonation Therapy as a treatment option for aphasia, which is discussed in Oliver Sacks' book "Musicophillia: Tales of Music and the Brain"?

[zv]

I once had a migraine aura that caused transient aphasia, I've only experienced it once. Mostly I get disruption on my vision. But it was very unpleasent not being able to understand and speak anything other than an alien language.

[angelesmontoya]

Yes, I have epilepsy and scarr tissue in my left temporal lobe, and my language has been affected

[tarekhandoussa]

Hi. I have high tryptophan 14 and sometimes a low temperature of 34 and I have a pulse of up to 200 and hands and feet are constantly cold even in summer and sometimes excessive activity and longevity with a greater percentage of lethargy and general fatigue and I did atomic scanning on the body and MRI of the brain, EEG, Prolonged EEG, 24h Holter, tablet test, CT scan of the chest, echo, EKG, blood picture, sodium, potassium, magnesium, cortisol stimulator, aldosterone, free T3, free T4, barothyroid hormone, ACTH, and TSH, and immunoassays for ANA, C3, C4 and IGe, and no one knows if they are rare syndromes in the body for certain acids, neurotransmitters or enzymes. I do not know. Please help, thank you very much. Sometimes I remember too much

[DrOmarDanoun]

Cool... Are you going to be at the AAN this year?

[sardonic_smile_]

Any summary of neurological side effects of "the vaccine"?
Thank you for your consideration.

[jg]

Bruce was always good at speaking...on another note, not sure why the Joker has PBA

[pabloesco]

My Mom has an urinal infection and an aphasia. She's also Bipolar type 2. The infection of the Bipolar's pathology could cause this kind of Aphasia ? We discover also since 3 years she's Parkinson and since 1 years she has some difficulties to speak a full phrase. Could be the Parkinson that evolved or the Aphasia who restrain her ? Thanks for your videos.