You can imagine how frustrating it is if you can’t find words, if you can’t organize words into sentences, if you can’t get your mouth to produce the sounds you want it to produce. You are still yourself … but you may not sound like yourself.”  

Brenda Rapp, Professor, Department of Cognitive Science, on aphasia, the brain disorder that affects speaking, reading, and writing and with which the actor Bruce Willis has been diagnosed.

The Washington Post, March 31, 2022