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41Memory disorder — Memory can be defined as an organism s ability to encode, retain, and recall information. Disorders of memory can range from mild to severe, yet are all a result of damage to neuroanatomical structures; either in part or in full. This damage… …
42Anton-Babinski syndrome — Anton Babinski syndrome, more frequently known as Anton s blindness, is a rare symptom of brain damage occurring in the occipital lobe. People who suffer from it are cortically blind, but affirm, often quite adamantly and in the face of clear… …
43Cognitive interview — The cognitive interview (CI) is a method of interviewing in which eyewitnesses and victims report what they remember from a crime scene. Using four retrievals, the primary focus of the cognitive interview is to make witnesses and victims of a… …
44Perspectives on the abduction phenomenon — Various perspectives on the abduction phenomenon have formed in order to explain the fantastical claims some have made of being forcibly taken and examined by apparently otherworldly beings. The prime differences between these perspectives lie in …
45Korsakoff syndrome — or Korsakoff psychosis or Korsakoff disease Neurological disorder marked by severe amnesia despite clear perception and full consciousness, resulting from chronic alcoholism, head injury, brain illness, or thiamin deficiency. Persons with the… …
46fabrication — Telling false tales as true; e.g., the malingering of symptoms or illness or feigning an incorrect response or calculation during a psychological or mental status examination. * * * fab·ri·ca·tion .fab ri kā shən n CONFABULATION * * * fab·ri·ca· …
47paramnésie — [ paramnezi ] n. f. • 1843; de 1. para et gr. mnêsis « souvenir » ♦ Méd. Perte de la mémoire des mots et de leurs signes. Illusion du déjà vu. Paramnésie de localisation : souvenir faussement localisé (dans l espace ou dans le temps). Adj.… …
48confabuler — ⇒CONFABULER, verbe intrans. Vx. ou p. plaisant. S entretenir familièrement avec quelqu un. Boissel nous aperçut qui confabulions à voix basse à l arrière (A. ARNOUX, Rhône, mon fleuve, 1944, p. 72) : • Si, au milieu de ces graves élucubrations,… …
49dialogue — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. conversation; part, speeches, lines, script. See drama. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. conversation, talk, exchange, remarks; see conversation , discussion 1 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. talk,… …
50discussion — I (Roget s IV) n. 1. [The act of considering in words] Syn. conversation, exchange, consultation, interview, deliberation, argumentation, contention, confabulation, dialogue, meaningful dialogue, talk, excursus, conference, wrangling, argument,… …
