In Marseille was the first scientific conference, devoted to this phenomenon. Deja vu is an illusion already seen. According to statistics, about 60 percent of people once in my life felt this strange feeling. Finding himself in a strange place - in the house or on the street, we suddenly have the confidence that we have already been. Was the same furniture or grew the same trees. Next were the same people. And even as if it spoke to them on the same topic. It seems that now met with the past. But consciousness resists to believe it. We know that not a single moment of history not experienced twice.

Mystically minded researchers tried even to prove the occurrence of the wonderful phenomenon of reincarnation - the transmigration of souls. Himself renowned Swiss psychologist and philosopher Carl Jung was mesmerized attractive theory. He believed that deja vu is the memories of the past life which are transmitted to us in a dream. Singer Madonna, for the first time looking at the Imperial Palace in Beijing, admitted that it knows every nook and cranny. It gave her a reason to say that in a past life she was a servant of the last Manchu Emperor. And another diva - Tina Turner, first came to Egypt, suddenly saw the familiar landscapes and objects. And suddenly "remembered"that in the times of the pharaohs was a famous Queen Hatshepsut.

Where are all the same undertake such a strange memories?

Study of unusual phenomenon was not carried out in time. So, in 2009 the specialists of the Massachusetts Institute of technology announced that they had discovered a region of the brain responsible for the formation of this mysterious oshushenija here

Our experiments have shown: the main role of neurons in the centre of memory and emotions of the brain - the hippocampus is claimed then Nobel laureate, group leader, Professor Suzuki Tonegawa. - Specifically, in its dentate gyrus, which allows quickly - almost immediately - to detect tiny differences in a similar images.

Thanks to the activities of this section a person realizes what impressions similar to what he had seen and which are fundamentally new. The hippocampus how would share the experience of the person on the past and the present. But when two experiences are too similar, the work of the hippocampus "hangs". That will lead to deja vu.

- A set of neurons, which we called "cells space, creates a kind of "snapshot" of the project of any new place in which we find ourselves, " explained Professor Tonegawa. - A "snapshot" appears because we unconsciously begin to imagine, using the previously stored information. And when we see this same place already awake, trying to compare the "virtual" image with the present. And if this process for some reason is violated, the brain thinks modeled before an image or a real situation. The result gives a "false" memories for true. In these moments for us and begins to seem that we were in this place, although it we are in the first time.

After the opening of Tonegawa remained open only one question - this phenomenon is inherent in healthy people or not?

Researchers from the Masaryk University (Czech Republic) and the University of Exeter in the UK decided to find the answer to this question. And found: the phenomenon of deja vu is associated with individual anatomic peculiarities of the human brain.

C 1990s DEJAVU has become a topic for research thanks to modern means of Sciences studying the brain, writes inopressa.ru. Recently, scientists have even gathered in Marseille for the first scientific conference, entirely devoted to this phenomenon. According to experts, the phenomenon observed in patients suffering from epilepsy temporal lobes. They can perfectly describe this strange feeling, which had the unpleasant feeling in the stomach, then they sometimes lose consciousness. As often happens in neurology, pathology allows to understand the normal functioning of the brain.

The studies of the brains of patients epileptics scientists came to the following conclusion: everything happens so that the formation of memories is not after the perception of the event, and at the same time. Currently simultaneously and is perceived as a memorial, and becomes a memory.

- Explanation regarding paranormal phenomena, the existence of previous lives in reincarnation, which flourished in the late XIX century, are not claimed speakers.

Researchers have tried to establish whether there are differences between people who have experienced deja vu, and those who are unfamiliar with this. And found: the phenomenon of deja vu is associated with individual anatomic peculiarities of the human brain.

The experiment involved 113 healthy volunteers. But some sense of deja vu occurred frequently, others were not even acquainted with him. All had studied the brain using magnetic resonance imaging and new sensitive method for analyzing the morphology of the brain. The survey revealed that the appearance of deja vu, first, to blame the hippocampus. And secondly, a more careful analysis reveals an important feature for those people who often something "recalled" from the past life.

In their cortical - mainly mesiotemporal - and subcortical areas was significantly less grey matter than those who never confused the present with the past, " explains one of the leading authors of the study Milan Brazda (Milan Br?zdil). - Therefore, the basis of deja vu lies neurophysiological anomaly. It occurs in infancy failure in the process of formation of the brain. Failure is an area of the brain, where gray matter connected with the hippocampus, is not being developed. The lack of gray matter makes the hippocampus is not very controllable. And special moments, as a rule, during the fatigue and stress, it becomes overly excitable. In the end, born memories of what never was.

The final Dinos scientists disappointing: deja vu - a neurological disorder. Sorry to disappoint Turner with Madonna. And all those of the 60 percent who believed in reincarnation.