Patient AM Is Recovering from a Stroke in a Hospital

question 44

Multiple Choice

Patient AM is recovering from a stroke in a hospital in Berlin, Germany.The patient has no history of mental illness, but insists that she is actually in a hospital in her hometown of Manchester, England.When asked as to why all the doctors and staff are speaking German, patient AM cannot explain it, but is insistent that she is in England.Your diagnosis?

• A)Alzheimer's disease
• B)schizophrenia
• C)short-term memory amnesia
• D)reduplicative paramnesia

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