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    Carl (or Karl) Wernicke (/ˈvɛərnɪkə/; German: [ˈvɛɐ̯nɪkə]; 15 May 1848 – 15 June 1905) was a German physician, anatomist, psychiatrist and neuropathologist...
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    Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome (WKS) is the combined presence of Wernicke encephalopathy (WE) and alcoholic Korsakoff syndrome (AKS [clarification needed])...
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    Wernicke's aphasia, also known as receptive aphasia, sensory aphasia, fluent aphasia, or posterior aphasia, is a type of aphasia in which individuals have...
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    Wernicke's area (/ˈvɛərnɪkə/; German: [ˈvɛɐ̯nɪkə]), also called Wernicke's speech area, is one of the two parts of the cerebral cortex that are linked...
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  • Danish scholar Brian P. Wernicke (born 1958), American geologist Carl Wernicke (1848–1905), German physician Catharine Wernicke (1789–1862), Danish pianist...
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    Wernicke encephalopathy (WE), also Wernicke's encephalopathy, or wet brain is the presence of neurological symptoms caused by biochemical lesions of the...
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    deeper into a more scientific and psychological view of the brain. Carl Wernicke was an influential nineteenth century neuropsychiatrist specifically...
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  • mammillary bodies. Carl Wernicke (1848–1905), the neurologist who described all of these syndromes. Wernicke's area, named after Carl Wernicke, a brain region...
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    processing, Carl Wernicke created an early neurological model of language, that later was revived by Norman Geschwind. The model is known as the Wernicke–Geschwind...
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    processing syntax, grammar, and sentence structure. Wernicke's area was named for German doctor Carl Wernicke, who discovered it in 1874 in the course of his...
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  • 2008). "Review Wernicke's encephalopathy revisited Translation of the case history section of the original manuscript by Carl Wernicke 'Lehrbuch der Gehirnkrankheiten...
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    German Neurologist Carl Wernicke, who was also studying brains of aphasiacs post-mortem and identified the region now known as Wernicke's area. Discoveries...
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  • with recurrent manic episodes and no depression. The following year, Carl Wernicke proposed that mania and depression should be viewed as separate disorders...
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    of a healthy person", while about 1890 the German neuropsychiatrist Carl Wernicke lectured about the "abnormal euphoria" in patients with mania. A 1903...
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    In 1881, a few years after the landmark study of Retzius and Key, Carl Wernicke pioneered sterile ventricular puncture and external drainage of CSF...
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    by the early work of nineteenth-century neurologists Paul Broca and Carl Wernicke, these approaches identify two major subtypes of aphasia and several...
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    area and Broca's Aphasia. A few years later, a German neuroscientist, Carl Wernicke, consulted on a stroke patient. The patient experienced neither speech...
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  • the comprehension of grammatically complex sentences. Wernicke's area is named after Carl Wernicke, who in 1874 proposed a connection between damage to...
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  • Werner's syndrome – Otto Werner Wernicke's encephalopathy – Carl Wernicke Wernicke–Korsakoff syndrome – Carl Wernicke, Sergei Korsakoff Westerhof syndrome...
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    introduction of the term, some of the first ideas about agnosia came from Carl Wernicke, who created theories about receptive aphasia in 1874. He noted that...
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  • area of the brain largely responsible for language production, and Carl Wernicke's discovery of an area thought to be mostly responsible for comprehension...
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    psychiatric hospital and also habilitated at the Breslau University, under Carl Wernicke, in 1897. In 1898, Bonhoeffer married Paula von Hase (1876–1951), a...
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  • idées fixes has been expanded and refined by Emil Kraepelin (1904), Carl Wernicke (1906), and Karl Jaspers (1963), evolving into a concept of overvalued...
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    disorders result from communication problems among brain areas. In 1874, Carl Wernicke introduced this concept in his dissertation when he suggested that conduction...
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    century by the first localizations in aphasias by Paul Broca and then Carl Wernicke. Localizationist neurology and clinical descriptions reached a peak...
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  • Viktor Vasnetsov, Russian painter and illustrator (d. 1926) 1848 – Carl Wernicke, German neuropathologist. (d. 1905) 1854 – Ioannis Psycharis, Ukrainian-French...
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    be two independent functions (double dissociation). Paul Broca and Carl Wernicke were two physicians of the 1800s whose patients were evidence of the...
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    is produced. The automatic nature of speech repetition was noted by Carl Wernicke, the late nineteenth century neurologist, who observed that "The primary...
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    theory of the organism. Educated in medicine, Goldstein studied under Carl Wernicke and Ludwig Edinger where he focused on neurology and psychiatry. His...
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    pathology Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal – neurologist and psychiatrist Carl Wernicke – neurologist August von Wassermann – bacteriologist Caspar Friedrich...
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