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disposition > cognitive disorder > memory disorder > confabulation

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confabulation  

Definition

  • "the production of statements and actions that are unintentionally incongruous to the patient's history, background, present and future situation" (Dalla Barba et al., 2017, p. 44). Confabulations are used by the patient to compensate memory difficulties or deficiencies, as in the Korsakoff's syndrome.

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  • pseudoreminiscence

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Berlyne, N. (1972). Confabulation. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 120(554), 31–39. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.120.554.31

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]
  • • Dalla Barba, G. (1993). Different patterns of confabulation. Cortex, 29(4), 567–581. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0010-9452(13)80281-X

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
  • • Dalla Barba, G., & Boissé, M.-F. (2010). Temporal consciousness and confabulation: Is the medial temporal lobe “temporal”? Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 15(1–3), 95–117. https://doi.org/10.1080/13546800902758017

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
  • • Dalla Barba, G., Brazzarola, M., Marangoni, S., Barbera, C., & Zannoni, I. (2017). A longitudinal study of confabulation. Cortex, 87, 44–51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2016.05.009

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
  • • Francis, C., MacCallum, F., & Pierce, S. (2022). Interventions for confabulation: A systematic literature review. The Clinical Neuropsychologist, 36(8), 1997–2020. https://doi.org/10.1080/13854046.2021.1948612

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  • • Kopelman, M. D. (1987). Two types of confabulation. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 50(11), 1482–1487. https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.50.11.1482

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  • • La Corte, V., Serra, M., Attali, E., Boissé, M.-F., & Barba, G. D. (2010). Confabulation in Alzheimer’s disease and amnesia: A qualitative account and a new taxonomy. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 16(6), 967–974. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1355617710001001

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  • • Moscovitch, M. (1995). Confabulation. In D. L. Schacter (Ed.), Memory distortions: How minds, brains, and societies reconstruct the past (pp. 226–251). Harvard University Press.

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  • • Moscovitch, M. (1997). Strategic retrieval and the frontal lobes: Evidence from confabulation and amnesia. Neuropsychologia, 35(7), 1017–1034. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0028-3932(97)00028-6

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  • • Schnider, A., Von Daniken, C., & Gutbrod, K. (1996). The mechanisms of spontaneous and provoked confabulations. Brain, 119(4), 1365–1375. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/119.4.1365

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  • Valentina La Corte

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