title: [The clinical picture and a consideration of the neurolinguistic structure (author's transl)].
abstract: Despite the variability of its behavioral manifestations Wernicke's aphasia is considered to be a unitary syndrome. According to the criteria of intelligibility, phonemic and semantic paraphasias in spontaneous speech, 4 forms of Wernicke's aphasia are differentiated: 1) with predominantly semantic paraphasias, 2) with semantic jargon, 3) with predominantly phonemic paraphasias and 4) with phonemic jargon. A severe deficit in language understanding is common to all 4 forms. In addition to phonemic and semantic paraphasias paragrammatism is an outstanding feature of the language production in Wernicke's aphasia. After a survey of views about the localization of the lesion and of earlier descriptive models a neurolinguistic explantation of the characteristic symptoms of Wernicke's aphasia is suggested.
mesh_terms: D001037:Aphasia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology; D001307:Auditory Perception; D002560:Cerebrovascular Circulation; D006801:Humans; D011578:Psycholinguistics; D013577:Syndrome; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000503:physiopathology; D014705:Verbal Behavior
vernacular_title: Die Wernicke-Aphasie. Klinisches Bild und Uberlegungen zur neurolinguistischen Struktur