reduplicative paramnesia

pathology

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In memory disorder: Paramnesia and confabulation
This has been renamed reduplicative paramnesia or simply reduplication. Last, there was identifying paramnesia, in which a novel situation is experienced as duplicating an earlier situation in every detail; this is more generally known as déjà vu or paramnesia tout court. The term confabulation denotes the production of false…
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In memory disorder: Reduplicative paramnesia
Reduplication is observed mainly among acutely confused or severely amnesic people; for example, patients may say that they have been in one or more hospitals that are very similar to their present location and that all bear the same name. The effect also…
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