Neuropsychological Generation of Source Amnesia: An Episodic Memory Disorder of the Frontal Brain

Abstract:

Source amnesia is an explicit memory (declarative) disorder, particularly episodic, where source or contextual information concerning facts is severely distorted and/or unable to be recalled. This paper reviews the literature on source amnesia, including memory distrust syndrome, and its accepted correlation with the medial diencephalic system and the temporal lobes, and the suggested linkage between the frontal lobes, including special interest with the prefrontal cortex. Posthypnotic induction was the first presentation of source amnesia identified in the literature.

Subject:

Science and Technology

Grade Level:

Post-secondary

Collection:

Connexions