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  When the brain forgets how to speak: the case of Bruce Willis and neurobiology in real life.   I learned that the famous Hollywood actor named Bruce Willis, retired from acting due to a neurobiological condition exposed in this course called aphasia: this means that the brain starts to fail in functions as basic as speaking, understanding or even controlling our emotions. As we have seen in the course, aphasia is a language disturbance that occurs when two key areas in the brain become damaged: Broca's area (which helps form words and speech), and Wernicke's area (which allows us to understand and process what others tell us). When these areas stop working well, the person may speak with difficulty, use the wrong words or not understand what he or she hears. In addition to this report, a special communiqué following Bruce's retirement disclosed that the diagnosis went further; he was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, a progressive disease that mainly affects the...