Confabulation: Dissociation between everyday life and neuropsychological performance

Neurocase

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 111-118

  Papagno, Costanza ^a,b   Muggia, Silvia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b SAN PAOLO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CARCINOMATOUS MENINGITIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONVERSATION; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISSOCIATION; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0030014860     PISSN: 13554794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/neucas/2.2.111     Document Type: Article

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