{"id":49847,"date":"2017-04-18T03:31:59","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T02:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/?p=49847"},"modified":"2017-12-03T15:24:42","modified_gmt":"2017-12-03T15:24:42","slug":"confabulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/confabulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Confabulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting essay in <i>Aeon<\/i> by neurologist Jules Montague:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><b><a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/ideas\/why-is-the-brain-prone-to-florid-forms-of-confabulation\">Why is the brain prone to florid forms of confabulation?<\/a><\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p>She had visited Madonna\u2019s mansion the week before, Maggie told me during my ward round. Helped her choose outfits for the tour. The only problem was that Maggie was a seamstress in Dublin. She had never met Madonna; she had never provided her with sartorial advice on cone brassieres. Instead, an MRI scan conducted a few days earlier \u2013 when Maggie arrived at the ER febrile and agitated \u2013 revealed encephalitis, a swelling of the brain.<\/p>\n<p>Now she was confabulating, conveying false memories induced by injury to her brain. Not once did Maggie doubt that she was a seamstress to the stars, no matter how incongruous those stories seemed. And that\u2019s the essence of confabulation: the critical faculty of doubt is compromised. These honest lies were Maggie\u2019s truth&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting essay in Aeon by neurologist Jules Montague: Why is the brain prone to florid forms of confabulation? She had visited Madonna\u2019s mansion the week before, Maggie told me during my ward round. Helped her choose outfits for the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/confabulation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}