Wernicke syndrome
# Wernicke syndrome

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.
