The affective neuropsychology of confabulation and delusion

Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

Volumn 15, Issue 1-3, 2010, Pages 38-63

  Fotopoulou, Aikaterini ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Confabulation; Delusion; Emotion; Motivation; Reality monitoring

Indexed keywords

AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; AWARENESS; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONFABULATION; DELUSION; DISEASE COURSE; EMOTION; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL INSTABILITY; MOTIVATION; NEURITIS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOGENESIS; PSYCHOSIS; RECALL; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SELF CONCEPT; THINKING; WERNICKE KORSAKOFF SYNDROME; ZONA INCERTA;

DELUSIONS; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; MEMORY DISORDERS; MOTIVATION; REALITY TESTING; REPRESSION;

EID: 77649308520     PISSN: 13546805     EISSN: 14640619     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13546800903250949     Document Type: Review

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