Spontaneous confabulation and the adaptation of thought to ongoing reality

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 662-671

  Schnider, Armin ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFABULATION; CONFUSION; HUMAN; LIMBIC CORTEX; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; REWARD; THINKING; THOUGHT DISORDER; TRAINING; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; EGO; FRONTAL LOBE; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MENTAL DISEASE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECUMBENCY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; DECEPTION; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MENTAL DISORDERS; REALITY TESTING; THINKING;

EID: 0142104951     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn1179     Document Type: Article

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