Word: vu
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...That's déjà vu, but with a difference. Three years ago a similar all-night E.U. marathon session ended in a celebration of the vaunted E.U. constitution. Then French President Jacques Chirac made the controversial decision to put the constitution to a referendum - which he lost on May 29, 2005, setting the stage for the Dutch rejection several days later...
...uneasy sense of dèjá vu swept over Florida last week after an all-white jury acquitted seven juvenile boot camp guards and a nurse charged with aggravated manslaughter in the death of a black teen last year...
...everything but put the ball in the endzone,” said Harvard head coach Tim Murphy. “Our defense played heroically.“We need to be in sync...to beat good teams,” Murphy added.ELECTRIC SLIDEIt seemed like déjà vu for fans watching the Crimson on Saturday. Last week against Brown, a big hit on senior quarterback Liam O’Hagan—which may or may not have resulted in a mild concussion—knocked him out of the game and pressed senior Chris Pizzotti into action...
...people with epilepsy-induced dj vu usually don't experience the same disturbing eeriness that's so common in others. And that difference supports McHugh and Tonegawa's theory as well. "We suspect that the strange feeling comes from a conflict between two parts of the brain," Tonegawa says. "The neocortex is aware of the fact that you've never been in a situation before. The hippocampus is telling you that, yes, you have...
...basic research scientists, Tonegawa and McHugh don't claim that their work will lead to a drug or therapy--not yet. And if it does, nobody is likely to focus on dj vu, a mere side effect of memory. But a fuller understanding of how the hippocampus works could lead to the creation of a drug that strengthens the pattern-recognition circuit, which could help people overcome fearful memories that are triggered by associations with a familiar-seeming place (like a dentist's office). Of course, if you strengthen the circuitry too much, you might get the opposite illusion...