A man was convinced that the same events kept happening. The delusion was likely a complication of Alzheimer's.
A man in his 80s gradually started feeling that he was witnessing the same events again and again. This disturbing symptom, somewhat reminiscent of the 1993 movie"Groundhog Day," likely emerged as a rare complication of Alzheimer's disease, according to a new report of the case.
This condition, called deja vecu with recollective confabulation , is sometimes seen in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, according to the report. Neurodegenerative diseases are those in which cells of the central nervous system stop working and ultimately die. These conditions worsen over time, and no cures yet exist.Deja vecu differs from the more familiar deja vu, the transient and strange feeling that you have experienced the present before.
Deja vecu without recollective confabulation has also been seen in some neurological diseases, including temporal lobe epilepsy and traumatic brain injury, and in psychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia. In one reported case, it was linked to a person taking 5-hydroxytryptophan, a compound that gets converted into the chemical messenger serotonin in the body.
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