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Confabulations in Alcoholic Korsakoff's Syndrome: A Factor Analysis of the Nijmegen-Venray Confabulation List.

Yvonne C M Rensen, Erik Oudman, Joukje M Oosterman, Roy P C Kessels

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Article in Assessment, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Yvonne C M RensenVincent van Gogh Institute for Psychiatry, Venray, Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-2155-629X
Erik OudmanUtrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands.
Joukje M OostermanRadboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Roy P C KesselsVincent van Gogh Institute for Psychiatry, Venray, Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-9500-9793
Radboud University Nijmegen · NLUtrecht University · NLVincent Van Gogh Voor Geestelijke Gezondheidszorg · NL

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Confabulations generally refer to the emergence of memories of experiences and events that, in reality, never took place, and which are unintentionally produced. They are frequently observed in alcoholic Korsakoff's syndrome. The aim of the current study was to validate the Nijmegen-Venray Confabulation List (NVCL), an observation scale for quantifying both spontaneous and provoked confabulations. The NVCL was completed for 252 patients with alcoholic Korsakoff's syndrome. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were conducted to test three- and four-factor models of the NVCL structure. A four-factor model (provoked confabulations, spontaneous confabulations, severity of spontaneous confabulations, and distorted sense of reality) fitted the data better than the initially proposed three-factor model (provoked confabulations, spontaneous confabulations, memory, and orientation). The new instrument is therefore referred to as the NVCL-R. We encourage clinicians to include the assessment of confabulations in the neuropsychological examination, and to do so with validated instruments such as the NVCL-R.

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Memory DisordersFactor Analysis, StatisticalHumansNeuropsychological Testsalcoholic Korsakoff’s syndromeamnesiaassessmentconfabulationfactor analysisprovokedspontaneous

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PMID31928078
PMCPMC8392856
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