Receptive aphasia, also known as Wernicke's aphasia in Clinical neuropsychology is a discipline of psychology that specialises in the clinical assessment and treatment of patients with brain injury or neurocognitive deficits. Typically, a clinical neuropsychologist will hold an advanced degree in clinical psychology (in most countries this requires a doctorate level qualification) and will have completed further studies... clinical neuropsychology and neologistic jargonaphasia in Cognitive neuropsychology is a branch of neuropsychology that aims to understand how the structure and function of the brain relates to specific psychological processes. It places a particular emphasis on studying the cognitive effects of brain injury or neurological illness with a view to inferring models of normal cognitive functioning... cognitive neuropsychology, is a type of Aphasia is a loss or impairment of the ability to produce or comprehend language, due to brain damage. It is usually a result of damage to the language centres of the brain (like Brocas area) which are most commonly found in the left hemisphere, and can be caused by... aphasia caused by neurological damage to Wernicke's area in the brain. This is not to be confused with Wernicke's encephalopathy or the Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome is a combination of Korsakoffs syndrome which constitutes confusion, aphonia and confabulation; and Wernickes encephalopathy which is nystagmus, opthalmoplegia, coma and, if untreated, death. It is also known as cerebral beriberi, which is beriberi (thiamine deficiency disease) in the brain. Causes This condition results from... Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome.

Speech: (n.) an oral presentation by one person to a group (or sometimes just an individual); closely related terms include: Conversation (infomal speech by more than one person on a topic), Debate (formal communication between two groups holding opposing views vefore an audience), and the academic discipline of communications. (v... Speech is preserved but As with any complex, emergent concept, language is somewhat resistant to definition. However, most would agree that language is a system of communication or reasoning using representation along with metaphor and some manner of logical grammar, all of which presuppose a historical and at least temporarily transcendent standard or truth... language content is incorrect. This may vary from the insertion of a few incorrect or nonexistent words to a profuse outpouring of jargon. Rate, intonation and stress are normal. Substitutions of one word for another ("telephone" --> "television") are common. Comprehension and repetition are poor.

e.g. "I called my mother on the television and did not understand the door. It was too breakfast, but they came from far to near. My mother is not too old for me to be young."

If excessive, this may be confused with the psychiatric signs of "pressure of speech" and " In the mental health field, Word salad is used to describe the confused and repetitious language that is symptomatic of various psychoses and other serious mental illnesses. It describes the use of words with no apparent meaning attached to them, or to the relationships between them. In this context, it... word salad".

Patients who recover from Wernicke's aphasia report that whilst aphasic they found the speech of others to be unintelligible and ... even though they knew they were speaking they could neither stop themselves nor understand what they had just said.

See also

• Compare with Expressive aphasia is an aphasia caused by damage to Brocas area in the brain; it is also known as Brocas aphasia. For sufferers of this form of aphasia, speech is difficult to initiate, nonfluent, labored, and halting. Intonation and stress patterns are deficient. Language is reduced to disjointed... expressive aphasia (Broca's aphasia).
• Logorrhoea (US logorrhea) (Greek λογορροια, logorrhoia, word-flux) is defined as an excessive flow of words and, when used medically, refers to incoherent talkativeness that occurs in certain kinds of mental illness, such as mania. The word logorrhoea is often used pejoratively... Logorrhoea