Prefrontal lobe and confabulation

Question 1

Korsakoff’s case study suggest damage to —– causes ——

Answer 1

prefrontal damage causes confabulation

Question 2

Patient who had NP indication of what kind of damage

Answer 2

prefrontal damage and hypoactivation of medial and orbital prefrontal area on PET: 4 months later, confabulation was gone, no sign of prefrontal dysfunction on NP tests or PET

Question 3

R frontal case study: high rate of false alarms in

Answer 3

recognition recall for related items, but not for unrelated items

Question 4

Pre-frontal lobes thought to help distinguish what is

Answer 4

merely familiar from what actually is contextually accurate