An amnesic patient with an extraordinary distorted memory

Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 02:49 in Psychology & Sociology

If somebody asks you 'Do you remember what you did on March 13, 1985?' you are very likely to answer 'I don't know,' even if your memory is excellent. In a study conducted by Dalla Barba and Decaix from the Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale and the Department of Neurology of the Hopital Saint Antoine in Paris and published by Elsevier in the May 2009 issue of Cortex, researchers found that a patient with severe amnesia reported detailed false memories in answering this type of question. People with normal memories are unable to answer this type of question because it is beyond their memory capacity. This is the first reported case of a pathological condition that the authors of the article named 'Confabulatory Hyperamnesia'...

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