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Wernicke Area

Known as: area wernickes, Wernicke's Area, Area, Wernicke's 
Functional region comprising posterior part of the SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS in the dominant cerebral hemisphere (see CEREBRAL DOMINANCE) and often… 
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Auditory association cortexBlood supply aspectsMicrobiologicalProcess of secretion

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Left Posterior Superior Temporal Gyrus

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Temporal Lobe

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2010
2010
Diffusion tensor imaging depicting damage to the arcuate fasciculus in patients with conduction aphasia: a study of the Wernicke–Geschwind model
Abstract Objectives: In contrast with disorders of comprehension and spontaneous expression, conduction aphasia is characterized… 
Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
Electrocorticographic Frequency Alteration Mapping for Extraoperative Localization of Speech Cortex
OBJECTIVEElectrocortical stimulation (ECS) has long been established for delineating eloquent cortex in extraoperative mapping… 
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Asymmetry and gender effect in functionally lateralized cortical regions: A proton MRS imaging study
to compare metabolite concentrations and ratios in gray matter regions known for their anatomical/functional asymmetry and… 
2004
2004
Does language lateralization depend on the hippocampus?
  • S. Knecht
  • Brain : a journal of neurology
  • 2004
  • Corpus ID: 40379784
Children acquire language even in the presence of extensive damage to classical left‐hemisphere language areas. Moreover… 
1999
1999
SPECT abnormalities in Landau-Kleffner syndrome
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Semantic Category Dissociations: A Longitudinal Study of two Cases
Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Cerebral glucose metabolism as a predictor of recovery from aphasia in ischemic stroke.
OBJECTIVE The recovery of language function seen in poststroke aphasia is significantly related to the severity of the initial… 
1992
1992
Japanese crossed Wernicke's aphasia
A right-handed Japanese man with no personal or family history of left-handedness developed severe Wernicke's aphasia, a mild… 
1986
1986
Aphasia in left-handers: lesion site, lesion side, and hemispheric asymmetries on CT
Language in left-handed aphasics with left (n = 27) or right (n = 4) hemisphere lesion was examined. Left occipital CT asymmetry… 
Highly Cited
1982
Highly Cited
1982
Disorders of calculation in aphasic patients— Spatial and verbal components
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