title: Analyzing Confabulations in Schizophrenia and Healthy Participants.
abstract: Confabulations occur in schizophrenia and certain severe neuropsychiatric conditions, and to a lesser degree in healthy individuals. The present study used a forced confabulation paradigm to assess differences in confabulation between schizophrenia patients and healthy controls.
  
  
  
  Schizophrenia patients (n=60) and healthy control participants (n=19) were shown a video with missing segments, asked to fill in the gaps with speculations, and tested on their memory for the story. Cognitive functions and severity of symptoms were also evaluated.
  
  
  
  Schizophrenia patients generated significantly more confabulations than healthy control participants and had a greater tendency to generate confabulations that were related to each other. Schizophrenic confabulations were positively associated with temporal context confusions and formal thought disorder, and negatively with delusions.
  
  
  
  Our findings show that the schizophrenia patients generate more confabulations than healthy controls and schizophrenic confabulations are associated with positive symptoms. (JINS, 2016, 22, 911-919).
authors.affiliation: 1Kent State University,Kent,Ohio.
authors.forename: Mohammed K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Shakeel
authors.affiliation: 1Kent State University,Kent,Ohio.
authors.forename: Nancy M
authors.initials: NM
authors.lastname: Docherty
authors.affiliation: 1Kent State University,Kent,Ohio.
authors.forename: Patrick R
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Rich
authors.affiliation: 1Kent State University,Kent,Ohio.
authors.forename: Maria S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Zaragoza
authors.affiliation: 1Kent State University,Kent,Ohio.
authors.forename: Quin M
authors.initials: QM
authors.lastname: Chrobak
authors.affiliation: 1Kent State University,Kent,Ohio.
authors.forename: Amanda
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: McCleery
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003702:Delusions / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008569:Memory Disorders / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology*
keywords: False memory; Healthy controls; Psychiatry; Psychopathology; Psychosis; Severe mental illness