Neuropsychological analysis of a case of reduplicative paramnesia

Following a right cerebral hemispheric CVA, a patient showed extensive reduplication of place (his hospital) and occasional reduplication of person. His language was essentially intact, but he was deficient on tests of conceptualization and on nonverbal tasks, both visual and auditory. Short- and lo...

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Published in:Journal of clinical and experimental neuropsychology 1985-02, Vol.7 (1), p.111-121
Main Authors: PATTERSON, M. B, MACK, J. L
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adaptation, Psychological
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Aged
Amnesia - psychology
Aphasia - psychology
Attention
Biological and medical sciences
Cerebral Infarction - psychology
Dominance, Cerebral
Humans
Male
Medical sciences
Mental Recall
Neurocognitive Disorders - psychology
Neuropsychological Tests
Organic mental disorders. Neuropsychology
Orientation
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Verbal Learning
Wechsler Scales
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Summary:Following a right cerebral hemispheric CVA, a patient showed extensive reduplication of place (his hospital) and occasional reduplication of person. His language was essentially intact, but he was deficient on tests of conceptualization and on nonverbal tasks, both visual and auditory. Short- and long-term memory for nonverbal but not verbal material were also impaired. However, he had sufficient "memory" for the reduplicated hospitals to comment that they were spatially identical. He simply seemed unable to treat these memories as representing the same phenomena. Neuropsychological analysis suggest that reduplicative paramnesia represents a combination of perceptual and memory deficits as well as impaired ability to integrate information.
ISSN:0165-0475
1380-3395
DOI:10.1080/01688638508401245