Delusion and confabulation: Overlapping or distinct distortions of reality?

Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

Volumn 15, Issue 1-3, 2010, Pages 1-13

  Langdon, Robyn ^a   Turner, Martha ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Belief; Cognitive neuropsychiatry; Confabulation; Delusion; Memory; Psychosis

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DAMAGE; COGNITION; CONFABULATION; CONSCIOUSNESS; DELUSION; EMOTION; FALSE MEMORY; HUMAN; HYPNOSIS; INTROSPECTION; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NEUROPSYCHIATRY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOKED CONFABULATION; PSYCHOSIS; REVIEW; SELF CONCEPT; SENSATION; SPONTANEOUS CONFABULATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; THINKING;

AMNESIA; COGNITION; DELUSIONS; HUMANS; MEMORY; REALITY TESTING; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 77649291125     PISSN: 13546805     EISSN: 14640619     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13546800903519095     Document Type: Review

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