Reality confusion in spontaneous confabulation.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
A woman produced spontaneous confabulations after rupture of an anterior communicating artery aneurysm. She confused currently irrelevant with currently relevant information in implicit memory; confabulations about people concerned only new acquaintances; false reality could be induced by an intensive 5-minute discussion; and in a recognition task, she confused false repetitions in another modality with real item repetitions. The findings support the theory that the defect causing spontaneous confabulation precedes conscious memory processing.
Medical subject headings
- Brain Damage, Chronic
- Confusion
- Dementia
- Memory Disorders
- Prefrontal Cortex
- Subarachnoid Hemorrhage