Confabulation: Remembering 'another' past, planning 'another' future

Neurocase

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 425-435

  Dalla Barba, Gianfranco ^a,b,d   Cappelletti, Jee Yun ^c   Signorini, Matteo ^c   Denes, Gianfranco ^c  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b HENRI MONDOR HOSPITAL   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^d CENTRE PAUL BROCA   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNESIA; ANTERIOR COMMUNICATING ARTERY; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CASE REPORT; CONFABULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; SEMANTICS; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VASOSPASM;

EID: 0031407704     PISSN: 13554794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/neucas/3.6.425     Document Type: Article

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