Confabulation and delusional misidentification: a four year follow-up study.
Cortex
; 35(3): 413-22, 1999 Jun.
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| ID: mdl-10440078
ABSTRACT
We describe a patient, AZ, who showed, in addition to an amnesic syndrome which eventually improved, longstanding confabulation and delusional misidentification following bilateral frontal and right temporal post-traumatic lesions. Confabulation appeared in personal recollections and on long-term verbal memory testing. Misidentification concerned mainly his wife and house. During the four year follow-up AZ's confabulation progressively shrinked so as to become restricted to verbal memory tasks. By contrast, misidentification persisted. General semantic memory was unimpaired throughout, while performance on frontal tests was initially poor and partly improved in time. We argue that confabulation and misidentification, though often intermingled and occurring after similar lesion pattern, should be considered as different neuropsychological entities.
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Assunto principal:
Lobo Temporal
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Síndrome de Capgras
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Traumatismos Cranianos Fechados
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Delusões
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Fantasia
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Lobo Frontal
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Observational_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Cortex
Ano de publicação:
1999
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Itália