The patient’s case was described in a scientific article in the British Medical Journal. Although it is a rare disease, the medical literature has already described several cases.
He is 80 years old and his case was detected after he started acting unusual. The retiree believed his e-book reader was malfunctioning and gave him the same reading material over and over again. Therefore, he contacted the manufacturer of the device to report the apparent problem, but the technicians verified that the device was working properly.
It wasn’t the only thing. He also took his television to the technical department pointing out that he showed the same news over and over again, but once again the technicians tried to convince him that the device was working normally.
His family, unable to convince him of his erratic behavior, decided to take him to the doctor, where his diagnosis became a case study for science, after verifying that he was suffering from some sort of serious illness. already lived, a feeling that new encounters and situations are, in fact, repetitions of previous experiences.
The patient thought he was experiencing a situation similar to the movies He groundhog day either Like it’s the first time movie starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore.
“Each day is a repeat of the previous day… Each (televised) session is identical”, the man told doctors, as described in the article by The British Medical Journal (BMJ). “Same cars behind me with same people in them…same person getting out of cars with same clothes, carrying same bags, saying same things…nothing is new,” the man added, according to the BMJ.
As described in the scientific article, two years after the onset of symptoms, the man already had impaired verbal memory and executive dysfunction on a neuropsychological evaluation.
The reasons behind the strange case of a man who lives the same day every day
Doctors assessed the patient and they found he had difficulty with memory, verbal memory and had a tendency to merge two stories into one . Using cognitive tests and scans of his brain, the team found signs of Alzheimer’s disease .
According to scientists, this disorder is known as “already lived with recall confabulation” (DVRC). a rare phenomenon associated with alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative disorders.
Researchers believe, as other studies have proposed, that the condition stems from failures in the temporal and frontal lobes, which generate its recognition memory and metacognition deficits.
Although rare, “already lived with memory conspiracy” is a fascinating phenomenon that may provide unique insight into memory and delusional processes in dementia.” note the scientists.
Rare but not unique condition
The condition, although rare, It has been described several times in the medical literature. . The team notes that one of the earliest case reports, which called it a “Pathological form of Deja Vu” was published in 1896.
However, they clarified that this condition not always associated with Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of dementia and generally makes life difficult for patients unfortunate enough to experience it. In an early case, a soldier with cerebral malaria convinced himself that he had lived his whole life before, believing that the newspapers were talking about old news and that his brother’s wedding ceremony was a staged rerun.
“However, unlike groundhog day, the already lived does not usually have a happy ending explained another case report on a patient who suffered from similar symptoms.
“The condition is usually complicated by the development of memory confabulation, i.e. the tendency to make up stories to supply one’s situation (i.e. the delusional belief that one actually has lived his life before) seemingly logical explanations. Conflicts with one’s social environment and the resulting disregard for professional, social and domestic demands can give rise to a secondary pathology, such as a depressive disorder or psychosis. noted this report.
THE doctors tried to treat the recent patient with an immunotherapy trial , but unfortunately he showed no signs of improvement. He continued to live alone and without support, and four years after the onset of his symptoms he continued to show signs of Alzheimer’s disease progression, while his delusional symptoms remained “pervasive and bothersome”.
Source: Latercera
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