Confabulation: Implications for Criminal Justice, Forensic Mental Health, and Legal Professionals

Abstract

Tel : 651 - 734 - 5517 Citation : Brown J, Huntley D , Asp EW , Wiley , Cich , et . (2017) Confabulation : Implications , Forensic Mental , and . J Neurol . Vol . 8 . 4 : 217 Confabulation : Implications for Criminal Justice , Forensic Mental Health , and Legal Professionals Abstract Physical functions and processes . For instance , a physical injury to the brain ' s frontal lobe can disrupt executive functions , which would include the capacity to plan or , impulse , and . Similarly , the degenerative ' s lead (e . g . , short - term ' s - a dysfunction) . A damage is a phenomenon known as confabulation , which is the unintentional production . In , confabulation . This not , but for - involved . In , confabulation for justice . Moreover , those , may negatively impacted by their inability to discern truth from fiction . Individuals suffering (e . g . , Miranda) or , incompetence trial (i . e . , unable case) , or . Each integrity . Despite , there a justice settings . In an effort raise awareness confabulation in the justice , this of the symptoms and effects associated with confabulation for professionals working , forensic , and .