type of paramnesia; vivid false (fictional) memories, combined with pathological conviction in their truth. Confabulations can replace memory gaps in cases where there is a certain degree of critical impairment along with quantitative memory disorders, i.e., the patient is unable to assess that the events he is talking about could not have happened to him. In other cases, confabulations can occur without quantitative memory disorders, for example, within the framework of hallucinatory-delusional syndromes.