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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Trends Cogn Sci. 2019 May 4;23(6):476–487. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2019.04.003

Table 1.

Memory-related disorders classified according to agency, ownership and cognitive mapping disturbances

Category Domain Disorder Phenomenology Anatomy
Agency Space Egocentric disorientation Inability to represent the location of objects with respect to self P
Time Age disorientation Insistence on being younger than one’s real age, even with correct knowledge of the current year and year of birth Insula, P
Person Depersonalization Feeling detached from one’s mental processes or body, as if one is an outside observer TPJ, P
Ownership Space Heading disorientation Inability to represent direction of orientation with respect to the external environment F, RSC
Reduplicative paramnesia Delusion that a place simultaneously exists in two or more locations or is transferred to a different location F
Time Reduplicative paramnesia for time Delusion that an event happens simultaneously in two or more locations or is transferred to a different time F
Person Capgras / Fregoli Familiar persons are believed to be imposters / Belief that a stranger is a familiar person F
Map Space Anterograde disorientation Inability to create new representations of environmental information MTL
Time Limbic encephalitis Deficits in past remembering and future imagination MTL
Déjà vu Feeling that events have already happened MTL
Timeline disorganization Inability to obtain the correct sequence of life events MTL
Transient global amnesia loss of memory for recent events and an impaired ability to retain new information MTL

P – Parietal, TPJ – Temporoparietal junction, F – Frontal, MTL – Medial temporal lobe, RSC – Retrosplenial cortex; For references see [88].