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A 7 page research paper that discusses this form of aphasia. The writer defines the various forms of aphasia, including Wernicke's, discusses their differences, and then summarizes four research studies that address Wernicke's aphasia and treatment modalities. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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dementia or through brain injury. One of the prevailing mysteries of the human brain is precisely how it understands and generates language (Hickok, Bellugi and Klima, 2002). In the
mid-nineteenth century, French neurologist Paul Broca discovered that his patients who had suffered damage to a portion of the brain located in the left hemisphere, now known as Brocas area,
could understand spoken language, but had trouble with speaking. In 1975, a German physician Carl Wernicke discerned that patients with fluent speech production, but who suffered from comprehension problems typically
had suffered damage to another part of the left brain hemisphere, which became known as Wernickes area (Hickok, Bellugi and Klima, 2002). These speech difficulties are referred to aphasias.
Aphasia can be caused by brain damage, such as due to a stroke. But it is most frequently associated with dementia (NIDOCD, 2006). Men and women are equally affected with
roughly 80,000 individuals acquiring aphasia on an annual basis, with roughly 1 million Americans suffering from this disorder (NIDOCD, 2006). Wernickes aphasia refers to aphasia in which the
client has comprehension problems and, therefore, error-prone speech, which is the opposite of Brocas aphasia, in which the patient exhibits good comprehension, but has problems with speech production (Hickok, Bellugi
and Klima, 2002). In Wernickes aphasia, the damage to the brain is most typically to the temporal lobe (NIDOCD, 2006). It is typical for clients with Wernickes aphasia to speak
in long, fluently produced sentences that have no meaning (NIDOCD, 2006). The Wernickes aphasic may also add unnecessary words, and even create new "words." For instance, someone with Wernickes aphasia
might say, "You know that smoodle pinkered and that I want to get him round and take care of him like you want before," which means to the speaker
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