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Confabulation
Confabulations are a common symptom of frontal damage and are defined as sincerely offered, often detailed, but utterly false recollections. What distinguishes confabulations from simple lying is that typically there is no intent to deceive and the patient is unaware that s/he is not telling the truth. It could be called 'honest lying'.
Confabulation is simple to detect when the information the patient provides is patently false, self-contradictory, bizarre or at least highly improbable.
As common as these are tales fabricated by the patient that are coherent, internally consistent and relatively commonplace. Such tales can be identified as confabulations only by consulting with the patient's friends or relatives or by cross-checking it with information provided by the patient on other occasions.
For an example of confabulations, see the story of Phineas Gage.
In addition to confabulation, frontal-lobe damage produces a number of other cognitive impairments, including problems recollecting the temporal order in which a series of events unfold or in accurately assessing how much one knows about a given topic - a phenomenon called metacognition.
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