Dear Carol: I’m my mom’s only daughter, so we are close. Mom was recently diagnosed with mixed dementia, so I moved her in with me and I’m trying to learn how to care for her. She’s always been a ...

Why the brain fills in the gaps—even when it shouldn't Medically reviewed by Shaheen Lakhan, MD, PhD, FAAN Confabulation is when someone unconsciously remembers things that didn't happen. People who ...

Have you ever told a story or remembered an event that didn’t exactly happen, but believed it to be true? If so, you may have glimpsed what psychologists call confabulation. This fascinating term ...

Humans are misusing the medical term hallucination to describe AI errors The medical term confabulation is a better approximation of faulty AI output Dropping the term hallucination helps dispel myths ...