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disposition > cognitive disorder > memory disorder > environmental reduplicative paramnesia

Preferred term

environmental reduplicative paramnesia  

Definition(s)

  • A disorder characterized by the involuntary attribution of a false identity to a place.

Broader concept(s)

Synonym(s)

  • reduplicative paramnesia
  • reduplicative paramnesia for places

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Borghesani, V., Monti, A., Fortis, P., & Miceli, G. (2019). Reduplicative paramnesia for places: A comprehensive review of the literature and a new case report. Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery, 181, 7–20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clineuro.2019.03.022

    [Study type: empirical study, literature review / Access: closed]
  • • Diamantaras, A. A., Blondiaux, E., Schumacher, R., Müri, R. M., Blanke, O., & Heydrich, L. (2023). The neuropsychology and neuroanatomy of reduplicative paramnesia. Cortex, 167, 12-24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2023.06.006

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: open]
  • • Green, H., Seiler, L., & Anwar, F. (2024). Everything in its right place: A case report of reduplicative paramnesia with therapeutic and theoretical considerations. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 29(1), 41-54. https://doi.org/10.1080/13546805.2024.2313463

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
  • • Pignat, J.M., Ptak, R., Leemann, B., Guggisberg, A. G., Zahler, B., & Schnider, A. (2013). Modulation of environmental reduplicative paramnesia by perceptual experience. Neurocase, 19(5), 445-450. https://doi.org/10.1080/13554794.2012.690428

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]

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Editorial note

  • For example, Pignat et el. (2013) described the case of a 53-year-old man with frontal and temporal traumatic brain damage in the right hemisphere who thought he was in Portugal (his native country) when he was actually in Switzerland (his adopted country), essentially when the landscapes surrounding him were ambiguous. The disorder, which was transitory, finally disappeared.

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