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In the past, as Wernicke noted, persons with fluent but confused, unintelligible speech were often diagnosed as demented or psychotic, especially those without paralysis or other physical signs of brain injury. Adam herself initially was diagnosed with dementia and placed in a psychiatric ward. Clarification of the symptoms would be important for diagnosis and nosology as it came to be understood that, at least in some cases, like Adam’s, the symptoms, in the absence of general dementia, were neurological and that the patients had another kind of aphasia, later to be called sensory, or fluent, aphasia.