As source amnesia prohibits recollection of the context-specific information surrounding facts in experienced events, there is also the inclusive case of confusion concerning the content or context of events, a highly attributable factor to confabulation in brain disease. Such confusion has been loosely termed memory distrust syndrome by Gudjonsson and MacKeith in 1982. A person who suffers from memory distrust syndrome may distrust his or her own memory and be motivated to rely on external (non-self) sources. Source amnesia is an explicit memory disorder in which someone can recall certain information, but they do not know where or how they obtained it. ... Look up confabulation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Gisli Gudjonsson is Professor of Forensic Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London. ...
The overwhelming propensity to accept information from external sources (i.e. an interrogator) based on the influence of susceptibility has led to well documented false confessions. In addition, the credibility of a witness account who suffers from memory distrust syndrome is more questionable. In a parallel situation, amnesic individuals may have a greater propensity to have their memory manipulated and perhaps perform non-advantageous acts on the "direction" of external sources and have difficulty in differentiating imaginary and real experiences. Since it is an identified and natural occurrence that source amnesia pathology exists in the criminal law system, psychiatrists should increasingly take assessment and identification measures to isolate such a disorder on accused individuals and eye-witnesses. Source amnesia is an explicit memory disorder in which someone can recall certain information, but they do not know where or how they obtained it. ...
References
Lakhan, Shaheen. "Neuropsychological Generation of Source Amnesia: An Episodic Memory Disorder of the Frontal Brain". Journal of Medical and Biological Sciences1 (1).
Schater and Tulving identified via theoretical accounts that memory are differentiated for facts and for context.
The neuropsychological implications as in brain maturation, deterioration in the normal aging course, and damage are conveyed.
Source amnesia was first presented and examined in the hypnotic environment, and further understanding the human memory process is essential in unravelling this increasingly less mysterious condition.
A person who suffers from memorydistrustsyndrome may distrust his or her own memory and be motivated to rely on external (non-self) sources.
In a parallel situation, amnesic individuals may have a greater propensity to have their memory manipulated and perhaps perform non-advantageous acts on the "direction" of external sources and have difficulty in differentiating imaginary and real experiences.
Since it is an identified and natural occurrence that source amnesia pathology exists in the criminal law system, psychiatrists should increasing perform assessment and identification measures to isolate such a disorder on accused individuals and eye-witnesses.
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