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When complex partial seizures involve no or little recollection of episodic events, could deja vu be an attempt to bookend memory not completed during complex partial seizures?
A simplified example- during a complex partial seizure a song is on the radio and the parietal lobe is interpreting the info, but it's not recalled after the seizure as a part of the timeline memory. Then the next time the song is heard it triggers a deja vu because the parietal lobe has previously interpreted the information but there is no way to reference the information in the memory timeline.
There is the link between temporal lobe epilepsy, the hippocampus and the hippocampus' role in episodic memory.
So I was supposing that there might be a tendency for the brain to try to fill in gaps in the episodic memory timeline when a seizure breaks up that timeline. When the song occurs again it refers back to info the parietal lobe interpreted and since the brain can reference parietal lobe information it tries to reference information also in the memory timeline, but since that was involved in the seizure there is no reference to complete the memory.
I've smelled this somewhere before...
A simplified example- during a complex partial seizure a song is on the radio and the parietal lobe is interpreting the info, but it's not recalled after the seizure as a part of the timeline memory. Then the next time the song is heard it triggers a deja vu because the parietal lobe has previously interpreted the information but there is no way to reference the information in the memory timeline.
There is the link between temporal lobe epilepsy, the hippocampus and the hippocampus' role in episodic memory.
So I was supposing that there might be a tendency for the brain to try to fill in gaps in the episodic memory timeline when a seizure breaks up that timeline. When the song occurs again it refers back to info the parietal lobe interpreted and since the brain can reference parietal lobe information it tries to reference information also in the memory timeline, but since that was involved in the seizure there is no reference to complete the memory.
I've smelled this somewhere before...