Confabulation

Definition

The filling of memory gaps with fabricated, distorted, or misinterpreted memories about oneself or the world, without the conscious intention to deceive.

Also indexed as

Nearby in Symptoms, signs or clinical findings involving cognition

• MB21.0Age-associated cognitive decline
• MB21.1Amnesia
• MB21.2Anosognosia
• MB21.4Disorientation
• MB21.5Distractibility
• MB21.6Impaired abstract thinking
• MB21.7Impaired executive functioning
• MB21.8Impaired judgment