"dorflur" for "shoe"
Circumlocution: talking around the target word.E.g. "uhhh its white... its flat... you write on it..." (when referencing paper)
Press of speech: run-on speech.If a clinician asks, "what do you do at a supermarket?" And the individual responds with "Well, the supermarket is a place. It is a place with a lot of food. My favorite food is Italian food. At a supermarket, I buy different kinds of food. There are carts and baskets. Supermarkets have lots of customers, and workers..."
Lack of hemiparesis: typically, no motor deficits are seen with a localized lesion in Wernickes area. Reduced retention span: reduced ability to retain information for extended periods of time. Impairments in reading and writing: impairments can be seen in both reading and writing with differing severity levels.How to differentiate from other types of aphasia
Expressive aphasia (non-fluent Brocas aphasia): individuals have great difficulty forming complete sentences with generally only basic content words (leaving out words like "is" and "the"). Global aphasia: individuals have extreme difficulties with both expressive (producing language) and receptive (understanding language). Anomic aphasia: the biggest hallmark is ones poor word-finding abilities; ones speech is fluent and appropriate, but full of circumlocutions (evident in both writing and speech). Conduction aphasia: individuals can comprehend what is being said and are fluent in spontaneous speech, but they cannot repeat what is being said to them. Causes
The most common cause of Wernickes aphasia is stroke. Strokes may occur when blood flow to the brain is completely interrupted or severely reduced.
Benign hypertension or benign essential hypertension are historical terms that are considered misleading, as hypertension is never benign, and consequently they have fallen out of use (see history of hypertension). The terminology persisted in the International Classification of Disease (ICD9), but is not included in the current ICD10. == References ==