Confabulation

structures. According to Collinson, Meyyappan & Rosenfeld (2009), amnesia result from an injury to the part of the brain such as diencephalon. There are other studies suggested that thalamic injuries can result in retrograde and anterograde amnesia, confabulation and severe personality changes. In addition, amnesia can results from the injury to the frontal and temporal lobe because these lobes has connection with thalamus via reciprocal and cortico-subcortical connections. Authors Collinson,…

blindness (visual anosognosia) in spite of complete amaurosis of central origin (cortical blindness). In this, patient adamantly claim they are capable of seeing and/ or experiencing strange visual hallucinatory episodes, consequently resulting in confabulation [1]. This syndrome was first described by French writer Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592). In late 1890s Gabriel Anton (1858-1933), Austrian neuro-psychiatrist noted three patients, one with cortical blindness one with deafness and one with…

What follows when you try to recall a memory? Do you look up? Close your eyes? At times not recalling it at all? All the frustration that the brain goes through to reminisce meticulously. For someone to reminisce with precision is nearly an impossible task due to the way the brain stores memories, the reconstruction of memories, and temporary and permanent disturbances. Thus, our brain functions like a puzzle, at times creating false pieces to fill in the empty spots. This action of the brain is…

The simplest form in the world is illustrated as black and white, and while I often get caught in the gray my confabulation with Henry David Thoreau that day drowned me in the idea of the value of simplicity and its exceptional greatness. It was a shallow afternoon and the sun was hanging deeply in the sky, and because of my blissful ignorance, I wandered off into a place where peacefulness was a foundation of life. Walden Pond was the name, and a generous breeze devoured my body as night fell.…

remain still. I believe this client may be at stage 4: Mild-to-Moderate Cognitive Decline with his progression considering his struggle to recall some current events and names. He would try to cover up the fact that he did not know anything with confabulation. He also had trouble remembering his son’s birthday and this upset him. He became completely quiet for a bit after that. When he spoke about his son and was unable to remember his birthday, I tried using silence as a therapeutic…

one’s intelligence or personality. Rather often, people with amnesia understand there is a problem with their memorizing capabilities, and do not lose the adequacy of perception and actions. There are also some other symptoms typical for amnesia: confabulation (a condition when a person unintentionally makes up their memories in order to fill the gap in perception; these memories may be made up completely from scratch, or combined from fragments of real ones) and disorientation (Mayo…

Literature Review Misinformation, the intentional or unintentional spread of false information, has been shown to alter, suppress, or impair a person’s memory of an original event (Loftus & Palmer, 1974). The earliest experiments that studied false memories found that additional postevent information provided to an eyewitness can alter that person’s memory of this event; when exposed to leading questions or additional information following the event, participants were more likely to forget the…

later be incapable of remembering that the discussion happened and with who. Those with Korsakoff syndrome might "chitchat," or compose/ start, discussions they cannot memorize. Scientists are yet to establish why Korsakoff condition might cause confabulation. Korsakoff's dementia (Causes) Even though Korsakoff disease is related to conditions such as AIDS, persistent illnesses, poor diet as well as other conditions, it is commonly caused by alcohol misuse. Apart from Korsakoff disease, Owen has…

Cognitive deficits that occur with TBIs can include disorientation, poor attention span, loss of memory, poor organization & reasoning skills, inability to control emotional responses, affected ability to learn, confabulation, and affected functional independence. Motor deficits can include abnormal postures, generalized weakness, difficulty initiating movements, disorders of muscle tone, reemergence of primitive & tonic reflexes, motor sequencing deficits, ataxia,…

The trolley problem is a thought problem created by Judith Thomson, asking whether, while on a trolley with broken brakes, to save one man on the track or turn the trolley and save five men on the other track (Thomson 1395). There are various schools of ethics that argue both sides of the issue and its variants, but this paper addresses the arguments of utilitarianism and deontology. Utilitarianism focuses on the idea of utility, or happiness, that is created as a product of our actions. On the…