"Wernicke Area" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Functional region comprising posterior part of the SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS in the dominant cerebral hemisphere (see CEREBRAL DOMINANCE) and often portions of the PARIETAL LOBE. Along with BROCA AREA it is important in SPEECH and LANGUAGE processes. A lesion in the area is associated with WERNICKE APHASIA and CONDUCTION APHASIA.
| Descriptor ID |
D065813
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A08.186.211.730.885.287.500.670.837 A08.186.211.730.885.287.500.863.850
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| Concept/Terms |
Wernicke Area- Wernicke Area
- Area, Wernicke
- Sensorisches Sprachzentrum
- Sensorisches Sprachzentrums
- Sprachzentrum, Sensorisches
- Sprachzentrums, Sensorisches
- Wernicke's Area
- Area, Wernicke's
- Wernickes Area
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| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Wernicke Area" by people in Profiles.
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Salek KE, Hassan IS, Kotrotsou A, Abrol S, Faro SH, Mohamed FB, Zinn PO, Wei W, Li N, Kumar AJ, Weinberg JS, Wefel JS, Kesler SR, Liu HA, Hou P, Stafford RJ, Prabhu S, Sawaya R, Colen RR. Silent Sentence Completion Shows Superiority Localizing Wernicke's Area and Activation Patterns of Distinct Language Paradigms Correlate with Genomics: Prospective Study. Sci Rep. 2017 09 21; 7(1):12054.
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Jeong JW, Asano E, Juh?sz C, Chugani HT. Localization of specific language pathways using diffusion-weighted imaging tractography for presurgical planning of children with intractable epilepsy. Epilepsia. 2015 Jan; 56(1):49-57.