Publication Cover
Neuropsychoanalysis
An Interdisciplinary Journal for Psychoanalysis and the Neurosciences
Volume 9, 2007 - Issue 1
107
Views
2
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Articles

Confabulation in Dementia: Constantly Compensating Memory Systems

Pages 5-17 | Published online: 09 Jan 2014

References

  • Babinsky, R., Spiske, K., Markowitsch, H., & Engel, H. (1997). Clinical case report: Memory functions after anterior communicating artery aneurysm rupture. International Journal of Neuroscience, 91: 265–275.
  • Benson, D., Gardner, H., & Meadows, J. (1976). Reduplicative paramnesia. Neurology, 26: 147–151.
  • Benson, D. F., Djenderedjian, A., Miller, B. L., Pachana, N. A., Chang, L., Itti, L., Eng, G. E., & Mena, I. (1996). Neural basis of confabulation. Neurology, 46: 1239–1243.
  • Benton A. L., & Hamshire, K. de S. (1989). Multilingual Aphasia Examination. Iowa City, IW: University of Iowa Press.
  • Berlyne, N. (1972). Confabulation. British Journal of Psychiatry, 120, 31–39.
  • Campbell, J. (1994). Past, Space, and Self. Cambridge, MA: Bradford Book, MIT Press.
  • Caplan, D. (1992). Language: Structure, Processing and Disorders. Cambridge, MA: Bradford Book, MIT Press.
  • Chafe, W. (1994). Language and the flow of thought. In: The New Psychology of Language, ed. M. Tomasello. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, pp. 93–111.
  • Cunningham, J. M., Pliskin, N. H., Cassisi, J. E., Tsang, B., & Rao, S. (1997). Relationship between confabulation and measures of memory and executive function. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 19: 867–877.
  • Dalla Barba, G. (1993a). Different patterns of confabulation. Cortex, 29: 567–581.
  • Dalla Barba, G. (1993b). Confabulation: Knowledge and recollective experience. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 10: 1–20.
  • Dalla Barba, G., Parlato, V., Iavarone, A., & Boller, F. (1995). Anosognosia, intrusions and “frontal” functions in Alzheimer’s disease and depression. Neuropsychologia, 33: 247–259.
  • Dalla Barba, G., & Wong, C. (1995). Encoding specificity and intrusion in Alzheimer’s disease and amnesia. Brain and Cognition, 27: 1–16.
  • Damasio, A., Graff-Radford, N., Eslinger, P., Damasio, H., & Kassell, N. (1987). Amnesia following basal forebrain lesions. Archives of Neurology, 42: 263–271.
  • D’Esposito, M., Alexander, M., Fischer, R., McGlinchey-Berroth, R., & O’Connor, M. (1996). Recovery of memory and executive function following anterior communicating artery aneurysm rupture. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 2: 565–570.
  • DeLuca, J. (2001). A cognitive neuroscience perspective on confabulation. Neuro-Psychoanalysis, 2: 119–132.
  • DeLuca, J., & Cicerone, K. D. (1991). Confabulation following aneurysm of the anterior communicating artery. Cortex, 27: 417–423.
  • Fischer, R. S., Alexander, M. P., D’Esposito, M. D., & Otto, R. (1995). Neuropsychological and neuroanatomical correlates of confabulation. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 17: 20–28.
  • Fisher, C. M. (1982). Disorientation for place. Archives of Neurology, 39: 33–36.
  • Folstein, M., Folstein, S., & McHugh, P. (1975). “Mini-mental state”: A practical method for grading the cognitive state of patients for the clinician. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 12: 189–198.
  • Fotopoulou, A., Solms, M., & Turnbull, O. (2004). Wishful reality distortions in confabulation: A case report. Neuropsychologia, 47: 727–744.
  • Gustafson, L. (1987). Frontal lobe degeneration of non-Alzheimer type. II. Clinical picture and differential diagnosis. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 6: 209–223.
  • Hashimoto, R., Tanaka, Y., & Nakano, I. (2000). Amnesic confabulatory syndrome after focal basal forebrain damage. Neurology, 54: 978–980.
  • Johnson, M. K., O’Connor, M., & Cantor, J. (1997). Confabulation, memory deficits and frontal dysfunction. Brain and Cognition, 34: 189–206.
  • Kopelman, M. D., Guinan, E. M., & Lewis, P. D. R. (1995). Delusional memory, confabulation and frontal lobe dysfunction: A case study in de Clerambault’s syndrome. Neurocase, 1: 71–77.
  • Kopelman, M., Ng, N., & Van den Brouke, O. (1997). Confabulation extending across episodic, personal and general semantic memory. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 14: 683–712.
  • Loewenstein, D., D’Elia, L., Guterman, A., Eisdorfer, C., Wilkie, F., LaRue, A., Mintzer, J., & Duara, R. (1991). The occurrence of different intrusive errors in patients with Alzheimer’s disease, Multiple Cerebral Infarctions, and Major Depressions. Brain and Language, 16: 104–117.
  • Lund and Manchester Groups (1994). Clinical and neuropathological criteria for frontotemporal dementia. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 57: 416–418.
  • Moscovitch, M. (1989). Confabulation and the frontal systems: Strategic versus associated retrieval in neuropsychological theories of memory. In: Varieties of Memory and Consciousness, ed. H. L. Roediger & F. I. M. Craik. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, pp. 133–160.
  • Moscovitch, M. (1995). Confabulation. In: Memory Distortion, ed. D. Schacter, J. P. Coyle, G. Fischbach, M. Mesulam, & L. Sullivan. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, pp. 226–251.
  • Pihan, H., Gutbrod, K., Baas, U., & Schnider, A. (2004). Dopamine inhibition and the adaption of behavior to ongoing reality. Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropsychology, 15: 709–712.
  • Schacter, D., & Tulving, E. (1994). What are the memory systems of 1994? In: Memory Systems, ed. D. Schacter & E. Tulving. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 1–38.
  • Schnider, A., von Däniken, C., & Gutbrod, K. (1996a), The mechanisms of spontaneous and provoked confabulations. Brain, 119: 1365–1375.
  • Schnider, A., Gutbrod, K., Hess, C., & Schroth, G. (1996b). Memory without context: Amnesia with confabulations after infarction of the right capsular genu. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 61: 186–193.
  • Schnider, A., & Ptak, R. (1999). Spontaneous confabulators fail to suppress currently irrelevant memory traces. Nature Neuroscience, 2: 677–681.
  • Shallice, T. (1999). The origin of confabulations. Nature Neuroscience, 2: 588–590.
  • Solms, M. (2001). A psychoanalytic perspective on confabulation. Neuro-Psychoanalysis, 2: 133–138.
  • Squire, L. (1987). Memory and Brain. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Tallberg, I. M. (1999). Projection of meaning in fronto-temporal dementia. Discourse Studies, 1 (4): 455–477.
  • Tallberg, I. M. (2001). Deictic disturbances after right hemisphere stroke. Journal of Pragmatics, 33 (8): 1309–1327.
  • Tallberg, I. M., & Almkvist, O. (2001). Confabulation and memory in patients with Alzheimer’s disease. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 23 (2): 172–184.
  • Tulving, E. (1985). Memory and consciousness. Canadian Psychology, 26: 1–12.
  • Tulving, E. (2002). Episodic memory: From mind to brain. Annual Reviews Psychology, 53: 1–25.
  • Turnbull, O. H., Jenkins, S., & Rowley, M.L. (2004). The pleasantness of false beliefs. An emotion-based account of confabulation. Neuro-Psychoanalysis, 6: 5–16.
  • Ullman, M. T. (2001). The Declarative/Procedural Model of Lexicon and Grammar. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 30, 37–69.
  • Ullman, M.T. (2004). Contributions of memory circuits to language: The declarative/procedural model. Cognition, 92, 231–270.
  • Weinstein, E. A. (1996). Symbolic aspects of confabulation following brain injury: Influence of premorbid personality. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 60: 331–350.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.