• Raheleh Karimi-Feizabadi

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• Masihollah Nemati

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• Heidar-Ali Amini

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Wernicke’s aphasia is a kind of language disorder in which the patient has a problem in understanding the language concepts. This disorder may be caused by brain stroke, hit on the head, brain cancer or brain infected illnesses; its amount is related to the place and period of the illness and also to the age of the patient. Wernicke's Area located on the posterior portion of the superior temporal gyrus in the hemisphere which is dominant for language. This area plays a critical role in the ability to understand and produce meaningful speech. A damage here will case Wernicke's aphasia. Areas 21 and 22 are the auditory association areas. These two areas are divided into two parts;
one half of each area lies on either side of area 42 together with they can be called Wernicke's area.
The researchers in this essay studied a case -patient- who was a seventy-year-old woman with a brain stroke. In this study they used twenty different questions from Nilipoor’s test1. By conducting the test, they concluded that the Wernicke’s area was damaged so this part of the brain should be treated.

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