Confabulation and the Brain, 2

No one specific cause for medical or psychiatric confabulation has been identified although several types of syndromes and disorders may underlie the symptoms, including:

• Memory disorders, such as Alzheimer’s and other dementias
• Traumatic brain injury
• Anton’s syndrome, or denial of blindness
• Capgras syndrome, the belief that an imposter has replaced a loved one
• Korsakoff syndrome
• Schizophrenia
• Split-brain syndrome
• Aneurysm

 More tomorrow.