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[Rexmons]

Deja Vu

Most people have had deja vu – that eerie sense of having experienced something before – but U.S. researchers have identified the part of the brain responsible for this sensation, and they think it may lead to new treatments for memory-related problems.

They said neurons in a memory center of the brain called the hippocampus make a mental map of new places and experiences, then store them away for future use.


But when two experiences begin to seem very much alike, these mental maps overlap and start to blur.


" Deja vu occurs when this ability is challenged," said Susumu Tonegawa, a professor of biology and neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, whose work appears in the journal Science.


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I don't know about you guys but for me deja vu isn't just a weird feeling that I've done something before. I'll have a dream where I'll see like a snapshot of an event involving myself that might not make a whole lot of sense to me at the moment but months, maybe even years later I'll be in that exact same position, with the exact same people, in the exact same environment, and it will trigger me to remember what I saw in my dream earlier. Anyone else experience something like this?