Abstract
Deja vu is an eerie experience that is characterized by the recognition of a situation concurrent with the awareness that this recognition is inappropriate. This feeling of irrelevant familiarity is a common phenomenon occurring both in clinical (mainly epileptic) and nonclinical population. Despite numerous theories have been suggested as to what nonpathological deja vu is and what causes it, until now no ultimate explanation has been generally accepted. We investigated differences in brain morphology between healthy subjects with and without deja vu using a novel multivariate neuroimaging technique, Source-Based Morphometry. The analysis revealed a set of cortical (predominantly mesiotemporal) and subcortical regions in which there was significantly less gray matter in subjects reporting deja vu. In these regions gray matter volume was inversely correlated with the frequency of deja vu. Our results demonstrate for the first time a structural correlate of deja vu in healthy individuals and implicate a direct pathogenetic link between nonpathological and epileptic deja vu. We hypothesize our findings reflect an alteration of hippocampal function and postnatal neurogenesis in subjects with deja vu. ∗Speaker †Corresponding author: mbrazd@med.muni.cz sciencesconf.org:escan2012:4032
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