Confabulations in alcoholic Korsakoff patients

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 46, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 3133-3143

  Borsutzky, Sabine ^a   Fujiwara, Esther ^b   Brand, Matthias ^a   Markowitsch, Hans J ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anterograde amnesia; False memories; Korsakoff syndrome; Memory; Retrograde amnesia

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONFABULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KORSAKOFF PSYCHOSIS; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; ORIENTATION; SCREENING TEST; SEMANTIC MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGED; ALCOHOL AMNESTIC DISORDER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONFUSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 50549098391     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.07.005     Document Type: Article

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