Look up: CONFABULATION

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   confabulation
   [n] - (psychiatry) a plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered
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   Confabulation
   A clinical sign of an orienting deficit in neurological disease (and especially in dysexecutive syndrome). Attempting to make sense of a present situation not truly understood, and characterised (a) by inventing a plausible (but factually false) explanation, and (b) (as far as can be established) by
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   Confabulation
   [See firstly frontal lobe syndrome and dysexecutive syndrome.] An attempt to explain present evidence to a present audience but without a true recollection to go on [compare false recollection]. If the confabulation is in any way grandiose or unreasonable then it is termed fantastic confabulation, but if it is reasonable-but-just-inaccurate it is termed momentary confabulation (McCarthy and Warrington, 1990). [There is a longer discussion of confabulation in Section 9 of our e-paper on `From Frontal Lobe Syndrome to Dysexecutive Syndrome`.]
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   confabulation
   the narration of fictitious occurrences or exaggeration of imagined events. A risk in panic-stricken persons in disaster situations Category: Management in the public and private sector • pattern of activity that is stable because of the way the inference rules have been modified to store several different previous patterns Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and compu...
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   Confabulation
   Changing, loosely held and false memories created to fill in organically-derived amnesia
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   Confabulation
   Con·fab`u·la'tion noun [ Latin confabulatio .] Familiar talk; easy, unrestrained, unceremonious conversation. « Friends' confabulations are comfortable at all times, as fire in winter. Burton. »
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   confabulation
   <psychiatry> Fabrication of detailed, plausible experiences and events to cover gaps in memory. May occur as a feature of Wernicke's encephalopathy. ... (05 Jan 1998) ...
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   confabulation
   noun (psychiatry) a plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered
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   Confabulation
   `Confabulation`, also known as `false memory` is the confusion of imagination with memory, and/or the confusion of true memories with false memories. Berlyne (1972) defined confabulation as `…a falsification of memory occurring in clear consciousness in association with an organically derived amnesia.` He distinguished between: * `momentary` (or `provoked`) confabulations - fleeting, and invariably provoked by questions probing the subject`s...
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    confabulation
    (kon″fab-u-la´shәn) unconscious filling in of gaps in memory with fabricated facts and experiences, commonly associated with organic pathology. It differs from lying in that the patient has no intention to deceive and believes the fabricated memories to be real.
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    Confabulation
    • (n.) Familiar talk; easy, unrestrained, unceremonious conversation.
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    confabulation
    (from the article `memory abnormality`) Spurious memories or fabrications are very common in psychiatric disorders and may take on an expansive and grandiose character. They may also embody ... ...marked by a clouding of consciousness and abnormal eye movements. It also can lead to Korsakoff syndrome, marked by irreversible loss of rece...
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    confabulation
    confabulation, confab (colloquial or informal) 1. The act of confabulating; a conversation; a discussion. 2. In psychiatry, the replacement of a gap in a person's memory by a falsification that he or she believes to be true.
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    confabulation
    
    1. an informal conversation
    2. (psychiatry) a plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered
    
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