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Aphasia Ends ‘Die-Hard’ Actor Bruce Willis's Career, Know What This Disease Is

The Die-Hard fame Bruce Willis is ending his 4-decades long career due to aphasia. Know what is aphasia and its symptoms here

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Pooja Suryavanshi

Hollywood actor Bruce Willis and his family are going through a very tough phase of life. The 67-year old actor is suffering from aphasia following which he has decided to end his film career of 4-decades. The disease has affected his ability to understand a language.

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Bruce’s wife Emma Heming Willis brought up the news to the audience via Instagram recently through a statement.bruce willis aphasia

What is Aphasia: The Die-Hard Actor Bruce Willis Is Suffering From

Aphasia is a brain condition where the person’s speaking, writing, and understanding skills of a language are affected.

As a result, the patient loses his cognitive abilities and has difficulty speaking or producing words. In many cases, the patient struggles with reading and writing as well depending upon what type of aphasia he/she has.

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Also Read: 7 Free Memory Improvement Games That Sharpen Your Brain

How is Aphasia caused?

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Types and Symptoms of Aphasia

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3 types of aphasia each affecting the cognitive ability of an individual. Broca’s Aphasia causes damage to speaking ability whereas reading and writing remain unaffected. It is also known as expressive aphasia where the person struggles forming meaningful sentences.

Second type is Wernicke’s aphasia which hurts a person’s ability to read and write a language. They are fluent in speaking but their sentences are usually arranged in random fashion which makes it difficult to understand for others.

Global aphasia is the third type that occurs due to huge damage to brain that prevents a person from understanding or speaking a language.

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These well-known types of aphasia can be detected through the following symptoms:

  • Trouble in speaking clearly and fluently
  • Not being able to understand speech
  • Unable to write or understand the written words
  • Difficulty in remembering words or names of objects
  • Difficulty finding suitable words
  • Unable to find errors

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highest-grossing actors in the world. He has done the biggest movies like Die-Hard, Sin City, Moonlighting, The Sixth Sense, and more.

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All of his films have earned more than US$5 billion worldwide. The actor has also received big awards and got his name on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and Grauman’s Chinese Theatres. French Government honored him with Order of Arts and Letters for his incredible contribution.

A Day To Die is last film of Bruce that got released on 4th March 2022. He has already done shooting for 6 more films includes ‘The Wrong Place, Corrective Measures and Die Like Lovers. ‘

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