Wernicke's 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.