Table of Contents

1: The reality of Mrs B
2: The history of confabulation
3: Types of confabulation
4: Aetiologies and anatomy of confabulation
5: Disorders associated or related with confabulation
6: Normal false memories
7: Mechanisms of confabulation
8: From behaviourally spontaneous confabulation to memory's reality
9: Reward system and reality check - a hypothesis

About the Author

Armin Schnider is professor of neurorehabilitation at the University Hospital of Geneva. He did his medical degree at the University of Basle and specialized in neurology in Bern, Zürich, and Los Angeles. His primary research interests are memory disorders and the neurobiological foundations of confabulations and reality control in thinking.

Reviews

This comprehensive and authoritative treatment of the remarkable phenomenon of confabulation ranges from rich clinical description to neurology, anatomy, and neuropsychology. It will be useful to clinicians, neuropsychologists, and other scientists interested in the organization of memory and thought. Larry R. Squire, Ph.D., University of California San Diego Armin Schnider's splendid book is the first definitive account of all aspects of confabulation - behavioural, neuroanatomical and theoretical- which has appeared for more than 50 years. It will be both an invaluable introduction to the disorder for neurologists, neuropsychologists and cognitive neuroscientists and an essential source book for researchers on the interface between cognition and memory. Tim Shallice, FMedSci, FRS, SISSA Trieste & University College London Schnider has written an ambitious, highly-readable, stimulating and important book on confabulation and memory. He weaves descriptions of patients with sophisticated analysis of their disorder that covers neuroanatomy, behaviour, cognition, functional imaging, and neurophysiology. The reader emerges with a deep understanding not only of confabulation, but of memory in general. The book addresses the difficult problem at the heart of confabulation: How do we construct and modify our sense of reality? The provocative answers Schnider provides will stimulate discussion and thus make this book ideal for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses on memory. Morris Moscovitch, Ph.D., University of Toronto