Wernicke syndrome
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Wernicke syndrome is an ambiguous term. It may refer to:
- Wernicke aphasia: the eponymous term for receptive or sensory aphasia.
- Wernicke encephalopathy: an acute neurological syndrome of ophthalmoparesis, ataxia, and encephalopathy brought on by thiamine deficiency.
- Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome, also called Korsakoff psychosis: a subacute dementia syndrome, often following Wernicke encephalopathy, characterized clinically by confabulation and clinicopathologically correlated with degeneration of the mammillary bodies.
See also
Karl Wernicke (1848-1905), the neurologist who described all of these syndromes.
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