Korsakoff syndrome will allow you to tell the lie

Fibber suffering from Korsakoff's syndrome, believe that telling the truth. This syndrome, which allows all the time to lie and not even know it.

Korsakoff's syndrome may suddenly appear in people suffering from malnutrition or chronic alcoholics. And those and others are not able to absorb vitamin B1 and have a specific brain damage. This damage, though leads to disruption of short-term memory can be implicit for patients and for their occasional companions. If you ask the patient about recent events, it is quite true and blurt out the real story, and if you suspect that he is not telling the truth, try to avoid further discussion of this topic. On the surface it would seem that the patient is lying, because of their own reasons.

People with Korsakoff's syndrome is not really liars, or at least they did not deliberately distort the facts. Their behavior is called confabulation, that is, memory disorder in which the patient recalls events that never took place in his life. When asked what the patient was doing this morning, he was in a hospital room, with confidence can tell you about the last business meeting or trip to the zoo.

In one experiment, patients with various ailments were to remember for some time the story of a woman who robbed. While an ordinary person will forget after a while, most of the stories, the patients with the syndrome of Korsakov, on the contrary, will add to the story of the new made-up details.

via factroom.ru