Wernicke's area damage can cause inability to read {alexia}. Brain can block phonology {deep alexia} and/or block lexical stage {surface alexia}.
Wernicke's area damage can cause incorrect words {paraphasia}.
Wernicke's area damage can cause inability to name objects by palpating {tactile aphasia}.
Wernicke's area damage can cause non-existent words {neologism, aphasia}.
Wernicke's area damage {Wernicke's aphasia} {Wernicke aphasia} can cause bad semantics, paraphasia, imprecise words, circumlocutions, and neologisms, but speech is fluent, rapid, articulated, and grammatical.
Wernicke's area damage can cause inability to understand spoken words {word-meaning deafness} {word deafness}, though people can hear and speak them.
4-Medicine-Disease-Kinds-Organ-Nerve-Language
Outline of Knowledge Database Home Page
Description of Outline of Knowledge Database
Date Modified: 2022.0225