Content-specific confabulation

Cortex. 1999 Apr;35(2):163-82. doi: 10.1016/s0010-9452(08)70792-5.

Abstract

This report describes a person who confabulated following an anterior communicating artery aneurysm. His confabulation was limited to one very circumscribed area of his life and remained stable for twelve weeks, eventually improving with rehabilitation. It is argued that a content-specific confabulation of this nature challenges current theories of confabulation, and an integrative explanation is given based on previous findings by Burgess and Shallice (1996b) of the mechanisms of autobiographical recollection in healthy people.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Cognition Disorders / etiology
  • Cognition Disorders / psychology
  • Humans
  • Intelligence Tests
  • Intracranial Aneurysm / complications
  • Intracranial Aneurysm / psychology
  • Male
  • Memory / physiology
  • Memory Disorders / etiology
  • Memory Disorders / psychology*
  • Memory Disorders / rehabilitation
  • Mental Processes / physiology
  • Middle Aged
  • Neuropsychological Tests