"Do you remember what you did on March 13, 1985?" A case study of confabulatory hypermnesia

Cortex

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 566-574

  Dalla Barba, Gianfranco ^a,b,c,d   Decaix, Caroline ^e  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c HENRI MONDOR HOSPITAL   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^e HÔPITAL SAINT ANTOINE   (France)

Author keywords

Confabulation; Episodic memory; Semantic memory; Temporal consciousness

Indexed keywords

AGED; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONFABULATION; CONFABULATORY HYPERMNESIA; CONSCIOUSNESS; DISORIENTATION; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EPISODIC MEMORY; HUMAN; KORSAKOFF PSYCHOSIS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SEMANTIC MEMORY; TEMPORAL SUMMATION;

AGED; DECEPTION; HUMANS; KORSAKOFF SYNDROME; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REALITY TESTING; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 62349135149     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2008.03.009     Document Type: Article

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