Wernickes aphasia, also known as receptive aphasia, sensory aphasia or posterior aphasia, is a type of aphasia in which individuals have difficulty understanding written and spoken language. Patients with Wernickes aphasia demonstrate fluent speech, which is characterized by typical speech rate, intact syntactic abilities and effortless speech output. Writing often reflects speech in that it tends to lack content or meaning. In most cases, motor deficits (i.e. hemiparesis) do not occur in individuals with Wernickes aphasia. Therefore, they may produce a large amount of speech without much meaning. Individuals with Wernickes aphasia are typically unaware of their errors in speech and do not realize their speech may lack meaning. They typically remain unaware of even their most profound language deficits. Like many acquired language disorders, Wernickes aphasia can be experienced in many different ways and to many different degrees. Patients diagnosed with Wernickes aphasia can show severe language comprehension deficits; however, this is dependent on the severity and extent of the lesion. Severity levels may range from being unable to understand even the simplest spoken and/or written information to missing minor details of a conversation. Many diagnosed with Wernickes aphasia have difficulty with repetition in words and sentences and/or working memory.Wernickes aphasia was named after German physician Carl Wernicke, who is credited with discovering the area of the brain responsible for language comprehension (Wernickes area). Signs and symptoms
The following are common symptoms seen in patients with Wernickes aphasia:

Impaired comprehension: deficits in understanding (receptive) written and spoken language.
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