biography
pronunciation:
[vernikuh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1848–1905)
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| biography:
| Neurologist, born in Tarnowitz, Germany. He studied at Wrocław, Poland (formerly Breslau, Prussia), Berlin, and Vienna universities, and was professor at Breslau (1885–1904). He studied brain damage leading to aphasia (the loss of language ability), specifically the kind of aphasia in which comprehension is seriously impaired, and deduced the part of the brain chiefly involved (Wernicke's area). |
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