|
Article Excerpt
AUTHOR: William Hirstein
PUBLISHER: The MIT Press, 2004
ISBN: 0-26208-338-8, 288 pages, $35.00
Speech-language pathologists serving individuals with dementia, frontal lobe damage, or right hemisphere syndrome are likely familiar with confabulation, a phenomenon in which individuals create false answers to probe questions that would otherwise result in a response such as "I don't know" or a true-to-fact answer. Confabulation syndrome is most commonly associated with neurologic conditions such as Alzheimer's disease, split-brain syndrome, schizophrenia, Anton's syndrome, Capgras' syndrome, and Korsakoff's syndrome. However, it also has been found to occur in cognitively intact individuals with no prior history of brain damage or chemical imbalances.
William Hirstein's Brain Fiction provides a detailed multidisciplinary overview of the confabulation syndromes that may be observed in patients with neurogenic disorders. Hirstein commences with a thorough description of confabulation and explores...
|
|
Looking for additional articles?
Search our database of over 3 million articles.
Looking for more in-depth information on this industry?
Search our complete database of Industry & Market reports by text, subject, publication
name or publication date.
About Goliath
Whether you're looking for sales prospects, competitive information, company
analysis or best practices in managing your organization,
Goliath can help you meet your business needs.
Our extensive business information databases empower business
professionals with both the breadth and depth of credible,
authoritative information they need to support their business
goals. Whether it be strategic planning, sales prospecting,
company research or defining management best practices -
Goliath is your leading source for accurate information.
|
|
