Heckers, Stephan (Author)
Kendler, Kenneth S (Author)
Klee, Astrid (Author)
History of Psychiatry
Volume: 33
Issue: 2
Pages: 236-255
In 1880 Carl Wernicke gave this plenary lecture at an annual meeting of German physicians and natural scientists. He used principles from his 1874 aphasia monograph to build a neural model of mental illness. He proposed that the brain keeps a record of experiences in distinct areas of the sensory and motor cortices in the form of memory images, which allows for recognition of objects and the planning of motor acts. He conjectured that imperfections, partial defects and complete loss of such memory images lead, respectively, to mild, moderate and severe forms of psychopathology in sensory and motor realms. The lecture is an early presentation of Wernicke’s system of psychiatry. Several of his concepts have remained relevant in contemporary neuroscience.
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