Many Faces of Déjà Vu: A Narrative Review

Pašić, Marija Bošnjak; Velić, Emina Horvat; Fotak, Luka; Pašić, Hanna; Imširagić, Azijada Srkalović; Milat, Davorka; Šarac, Helena; Bjedov, Sarah; Gadže, Željka Petelin

doi:10.24869/psyd.2018.21

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“…It is often described as an eerie or strange sensation. 1 This study aims to assess the frequency of déjà vu among medical students and its association with stress. 89% of the subjects participating in the study had encountered déjà vu at least once in their life.…”

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“…The term déjà vu comes from the French language and means 'already seen'. 1 There are several varieties of déjà vu, including Classical déjà vu, which commonly occurs in a healthy individual and involves a feeling that a current experience has been experienced before, Recurrent Déjà vu, a persistent sense of familiarity, Pathological déjà vu, a sensation of familiarity caused by nervous disorders like temporal lobe epilepsy, 2 induced déjà vu is an impairment of cognitive dysfunction which may be caused by the use of certain drugs like a dopamine agonist mainly in Parkinson's disease which may suggest it occurs due to increase in dopamine activity. 3 Estimated about 60-70% of the masses had felt this experience once in life and a high number of participants experienced it frequently.…”

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Frequency of DÉJÀ VU Experience and Its Relationship with Stress in Students of The Medical University of Islamabad

Riaz,

Hamza,

Nayab

et al. 2024

JRMC

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Objective: This research aims to evaluate the frequency of déjà vu experience in medical students and its relationship with stress along with different prognostic factors that lead to déjà vu experience. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted at Foundation University Islamabad over 4 months from May 2023 to August 2023. The sample size (239) was calculated using open Epi software with a previous prevalence of 67%. Stratified random sampling was used to select students. Data was collected through a questionnaire containing demographic variables from a validated déjà vu inventory and stress tool. Analysis was done on a validated déjà vu inventory and perceived stress scale 10. SPSS 26 was used to assess the relationship between stress and the frequency of déjà vu using the chi-square test, with statistical significance at p<0.05. Results: 89.2% of the participants reported that they had experienced this sensation at least once in their life. The most popular ways this feeling happened were in a certain place or a certain situation. The association between stress and Déjà vu experiences was found to be significant(p-value 0.012) Conclusion: 89.2% of the participants reported that they had experienced Déjà vu sensation at least once. There was a significant association between stress among medical university students and Déjà vu experience. Keywords: Déjà vu, Stress, Familiarity, Sensation, Epilepsy, Dopamine.

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Frequency of DÉJÀ VU Experience and Its Relationship with Stress in Students of The Medical University of Islamabad

Riaz,

Hamza,

Nayab

et al. 2024

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“…Temporal limbic areas are intimately connecting with mesiofrontal areas in a broader limbic region. A further clue is the epileptic emergence of déjà vu, jamais vu, déjà vecu, and other abnormal feelings of familiarity associated with experiences (13).…”

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Frontolimbic affective bias and false narratives from brain disease

Mendez

2019

Medical Hypotheses

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Since the nineteenth century, clinicians and investigators have systematically evaluated the origin of delusions and psychotic thinking. One major clue to understanding the neurobiological underpinnings of delusions is the emergence of false narratives from brain disease. In addition to delusions themselves, there are a range of other false narratives not due to deliberate lying and resulting from neurological disorders, including provoked confabulations, fantastic confabulations, false memories, magical thinking, dream delusions, and "fantastic thinking". A comparison of their characteristics, similarities, and differences suggest a hypothesis: despite different sources for their false narrative experiences, such as unusual thoughts or perceptions, all false narratives from brain disease involve erroneous or mismatched "affective biases" applied to the experiences. Affective labels usually signal the sense of rightness, sense of familiarity, and the external vs. internal origin of an experience, and they can be altered by limbic neuropathology. The location and involvement of neuropathology that facilitates false narratives involves frontolimbic regions and their connections, particularly on the right. Future investigations can focus on frontolimbic mechanisms involved in the provision of the intrinsically-linked affective biases, which indicate the nature and external/internal origin of experiences.

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