Armin Schnider, Professor and Chairman of Neurorehabilitation, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University Hospital of Geneva

Armin Schnider is Professor and Chairman of Neurorehabilitation at the University Hospital of Geneva. He completed his medical degree at the University of Basle, then went on to specialise in neurology in Bern, Zurich, and Los Angeles. His primary research interests are memory disorders, the neurobiological foundations of confabulations and reality control in thinking.

Highly Commended in the Neurology category of the 2018 BMA Medical Book Awards

Reviews for Previous Edition

"An authoritative and challenging yet impressively accessible and enjoyable text for anyone interested in the neurobiology of cognition." - Daniel Schacter, Nature Neuroscience

"The Confabulating Mind is an up-to-date review of confabulation, ranging from its debated definition, aetiology, and anatomical bases, to neuropsychological mechanisms.... The result is impressive, with high historical and neuropsychological accuracy... clear, concise, and empirically based, with an excellent review of the literature... This book will interest a wide audience, including neurologists, clinicians, students, and researchers." - Elisa Ciaramelli, Lancet Neurology

"...an authoritative and comprehensive book on confabulation that will no doubt make experts wonder how the field has progressed thus far without it." - British Journal of Psychiatry

"This comprehensive and authoritative treatment of the remarkable phenomenon of confabulation ranges from rich clinical description to neurology, anatomy, and neuropsychology. It will be useful to clinicians, neuropsychologists, and other scientists interested in the organization of memory and thought." - Larry R. Squire, Ph.D., University of California San Diego