W10: Wernicke's Aphasia

Wernicke’s Aphasia

*A condition characterised by either partial or total loss of the ability to understand what is being said or read

^the individual maintains the ability to speak but speech may contain unnecessary or made-up words

Characteristics

• Poor spoken language comprehension (can produce)

• Lack ability to interpret meanings of words

• Inability to convert thoughts to words

• Production of meaningless speech

• Speech fluent and absence of any strain or searching words

• Use of function words but not many content words (prepositions e.g. it, and, this)

• Lack of self-awareness of condition

• Maintain social conventions of conversation

*Wernicke’s area= superior left temporal lobe

*Broca’s area= inferior left frontal lobe

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