Confabulation and frontal lobe dysfunction.
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Confabulation and frontal lobe dysfunction.
A patient is reported who displayed marked confabulation after frontal lobe damage, and whose pattern of performance on memory tests was not typically amnesic. He initially displayed both "fantastic" and "momentary" confabulation, but several months later showed only "momentary" confabulation, which was apparent on direct questioning. This change in type of confabulation was paralleled by impro...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
سال: 1980
ISSN: 0022-3050
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.43.5.461