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Cognitive mechanisms of confabulations in Alzheimer's Disease

2026-01-30 neurology Title + abstract only
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BackgroundAlzheimers disease (AD) patients are characterized by an early decline of episodic memory due to hippocampal damage. Nonetheless, besides the classical negative symptoms related to episodic memory deficits, i.e. failure to retrieve information, it has been shown that AD patients can also suffer from positives symptoms, i.e. confabulations. Some theoretical accounts have been proposed to explain the cognitive mechanisms underlying confabulation. Yet, even if most of these models have le...

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