This "paramnesia" theory suggests that the original event was somehow linked to distress and was being suppressed from conscious recognition, no longer accessible to memory. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: March 27, 2005 - April 2, 2005 Archives] Reference
From a Wikipedia article on reduplicative paramnesia I've just created. From Wordnik.com. [Mind Hacks: August 2005 Archives] Reference
She told me her name but paramnesia is odd: recognition is present but recall can't just be switched on like that. From Wordnik.com. [The Striker Portfolio]
Reduplicative paramnesia is the delusional belief that a place or location has been duplicated, existing in two or more places simultaneously, or that it has been 'relocated' to another site. From Wordnik.com. [Mind Hacks: August 2005 Archives] Reference
I'll be talking about the science and neuropsychology of reduplicative paramnesia and we'll both be discussing how we've found trying to combine our disciplines to better understand space and location, as well as unusual states of mind. From Wordnik.com. [Mind Hacks: October 2006 Archives] Reference
Reduplicative paramnesia is the delusional belief that a place exists in two or more locations simultaneously and has been the inspiration for the project where we will try and get participants to hold contrasting and contradictory memories of a past location in mind, while experiencing movement through a current space. From Wordnik.com. [Mind Hacks: October 2006 Archives] Reference
A consultant, however, suggested that the acute and late onset in an otherwise psychiatrically well person, the delusions of impostors (Capgras syndrome) and real and false neighborhoods (reduplicative paramnesia), and her difficulties finding her way about the unit (spatial disorientation) possibly indicated a nondominant parietal lobe stroke. From Wordnik.com. [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference
It may be that Leibnitz meant paramnesia with his "perceptiones insensibiles.". From Wordnik.com. [Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students] Reference
Indeed, Kräpelin asserts that paramnesia occurs only under normal circumstances. From Wordnik.com. [Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students] Reference
Wigand and Maudsley think they see in paramnesia a simultaneous functioning of both relations. From Wordnik.com. [Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students] Reference
It will perhaps be proper not to reduce all the phenomena of paramnesia to the same conditions. From Wordnik.com. [Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students] Reference
To generalize this situation would be to indicate that illusions of memory are always likely to have doubtful results when they have occurred only once and when the witness in consequence of paramnesia believes the event to have been repeatedly observed. From Wordnik.com. [Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students] Reference
Reduplicative paramnesia. From Wordnik.com. [Mind Hacks: August 2005 Archives] Reference
Mind Hacks: Reduplicative paramnesia. From Wordnik.com. [Mind Hacks: Reduplicative paramnesia] Reference
Reduplicative paramnesia, 18, 87. From Wordnik.com. [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference
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