Patient’s symptoms recur in rare case of déjà vécu
The patient thought his television was playing the same news repeatedly.
Memory impairment is relatively common in dementia, but Australian doctors have reported an unusual case of recollective confabulation coupled with the rare phenomenon known as déjà vécu.
Unlike déjà vu — the fleeting sensation of false familiarity that many will have experienced at least once in their lifetimes — déjà vécu describes a persistent, false perception that novel encounters have actually occurred before.
