Spontaneous confabulation, temporal context confusion and reality monitoring: A study of three patients with anterior communicating artery aneurysms

Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 984-994

  Turner, Martha S ^a   Cipolotti, Lisa ^b   Shallice, Tim ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^c SISSA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Executive function; Frontal lobe; Memory; Memory disorders; Source monitoring; Strategic retrieval

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONFUSION; EGO; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RECALL; RECOGNITION;

BRAIN; CONFUSION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REALITY TESTING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 79451474738     PISSN: 13556177     EISSN: 14697661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355617710001104     Document Type: Conference Paper

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