Wernicke's Aphasia

This is a video of a patient with Wernicke's aphasia from the Wisconsin Physiology Dept.

http://www.physiology.wisc.edu/yin/public/

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• aphasia
• patient
• wernicke
• neuroscience

[PuraVid4]

holy christmas!

[ganymedia]

Despite obvious aphasic properties of his language generation, he does show contextual understanding of the interviewer's questions -- and I think is following better than many would give him credit for (and better than the interviewer I think realised). I find it sad how patronising the interviewer is to an educated man who, in fact, answers quite cogently and humourously if one looks behind the strange constructions.

Q: Where were you a dentist?

A: [points to mouth laughing] Right here.

[hidenorivideo]

Whoever that lady is, she is a terrible communicator to the point of cruelty. Why would you ask contentful questions like that when you can expect the other person won't be able to answer them? And when he does manage to express himself with words stored deeper and closer to strong emotions, she insists on focusing on the words he has no control over. Surely someone somewhere has developed a communication method for people in his situation?!

[disquetador]

@ganymedia but did you notice he answers every question with that....?

[TheQt27]

This is so sad what some ppl go tru and we who have no disorders take our blessings for granted. :( i feel soooo sry for this guy.

[FauxNom2]

@KamikazeChris33 Correct. Broca's Area is located next to the Motor Cortex (particularly the lips). Broca's Aphasia results in an ability to understand language and respond, but cannot process outgoing complex communication correctly (can't put their thoughts into words). Wernicke's Aphasia is where language isn't correctly understood, but there's no problem processing into words; often resulting in gibberish.

In both, common/short phrases are often normal. Total loss is rare.

[GovernmentHo0ker]

people suffering from aphasia, a loss of the ability to understand words, are significantly better at detecting lies than normal people.

[WizardOfHumor1989]

@TikiShootah Tripple LOL! XD

[a10fjet]

poor guy... i cant imagine not being able to think. what torture.

[RidersCanucks]

@Formslip Yeah right, there's no problems at all. Totally 100% competent. This lady's working to help people, have some respect.

[KamikazeChris33]

@Scandinavian92 Broca's is when you understand language completely, but cannot use your speech muscles properly to make fluent speech. Wernicke's is when you cannot understand language, therefore your sentences will not make sense, but your speech is fluent. I could be wrong though, but I think that's what I was taught.