The aim of our study was to evolve views on writing disorders in Wernicke's agraphia by comparing group data and analysis of a single patient. We showed how a single-case study can be useful in obtaining essential results that can be hidden by averaging group data. Analysis of a single patient proved to be important for resolving contradictions of the "holistic" and "elementaristic" paradigms o...

Wernicke's aphasia, Wernicke's encephalopathy, Wernicke-Mann hemiplegia, Wernicke's area, Wernicke's bundle, Wernicke's fissure .. .: such monuments to the localization of mental disorders in cerebral pathology are familiar to every student of psychiatry and higher cortical function. In this workman-like, if brief, biography, Lanczik shows how Wernicke exemplified the achievements of the German...