title: Space-related confabulations after right hemisphere damage.
abstract: Confabulations usually refer to memory distortions, characterized by the production of verbal statements or actions that are inconsistent with the patient's history and present situation. However, behavioral patterns reminiscent of memory confabulations can also occur in patients with right hemisphere damage, in relation to their personal, peripersonal or extrapersonal space. Thus, such patients may be unaware of their left hemiplegia and confabulate about it (anosognosia), deny the ownership of their left limbs (somatoparaphrenia), insult and hit them (misoplegia), or experience a "third", supernumerary left limb. Right brain-damaged patients can also sometimes confabulate about the left, neglected part of images presented in their peripersonal space, or believe to be in another place (reduplicative paramnesia). We review here these instances of confabulation occurring after right hemisphere damage, and propose that they might reflect, at least partially, the attempts of the left hemisphere to make sense of inappropriate input received from the damaged right hemisphere.
authors.affiliation: Inserm U 1127, Paris, France; Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR S 1127, Paris, France; CNRS, UMR 7225, Paris, France; Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière, ICM, Paris, France. Electronic address: paolo.bartolomeo@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bartolomeo
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, University of East London, London, UK.
authors.forename: Stefania
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: de Vito
authors.affiliation: Inserm U 1127, Paris, France; Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR S 1127, Paris, France; CNRS, UMR 7225, Paris, France; Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière, ICM, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Tal
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Seidel Malkinson
mesh_terms: D000377:Agnosia / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology*; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology; D006429:Hemiplegia / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008569:Memory Disorders / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology*; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D010468:Perceptual Disorders / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology*; D013028:Space Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D020521:Stroke / Q000150:complications
keywords: Anosognosia; Brain damage; Implicit processing; Somatoparaphrenia; Visual neglect