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Wernicke syndrome

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Wernicke syndrome is an ambiguous term. It may refer to:

  • Wernicke aphasia: the eponymous term for receptive or sensory aphasia.
  • Wernicke encephalopathy: an acute neurological syndrome of ophthalmoparesis, ataxia, and encephalopathy brought on by thiamine deficiency.
  • Wernicke–Korsakoff syndrome, also called Korsakoff psychosis: a subacute dementia syndrome, often following Wernicke encephalopathy, characterized clinically by confabulation and clinicopathologically correlated with degeneration of the mammillary bodies.

See also

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  • Carl Wernicke (1848–1905), the neurologist who described all of these syndromes.
  • Wernicke's area, named after Carl Wernicke, a brain region associated with the understanding of written and spoken language.