Isolated prospective confabulation in Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome: A case for reality filtering

Neurocase

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 90-104

  Schnider, Armin ^a,b   Nahum, Louis ^a,b   Pignat, Jean Michel ^a,b   Leemann, Béatrice ^b   Lövblad, Karl Olof ^b   Wissmeyer, Michael ^b   Ptak, Radek ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Amnesia; Confabulation; Disorientation; Extinction; Orbitofrontal; Wernicke Korsakoff

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFABULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISORIENTATION; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NYSTAGMUS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECOGNITION; SCORING SYSTEM; SEMANTIC MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WERNICKE KORSAKOFF SYNDROME;

ALCOHOLISM; BRAIN; DELUSIONS; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; KORSAKOFF SYNDROME; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; STROOP TEST; VERBAL LEARNING; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 84872403458     PISSN: 13554794     EISSN: 14653656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13554794.2011.654221     Document Type: Article

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