A patient comes to you, a brilliant neuropsychologist. He speaks with a lot of adjectives and adverbs, and his sentences are florid but make no sense. You also notice that he calls objects in the room by the wrong name. You conclude that this patient has ____.?

a. ?Korsakoff's psychosis
b. ?Wernicke's aphasia
c. ?hemineglect
d. ?aprosodia


ANSWER:
b

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