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An 18-year-old woman has been brought to the Emergency Department for assessment from the international airport, where she had felt unwell while waiting in the transit queue to check in for her return flight to an Asian country. She had been in the country for three weeks only, sightseeing and visiting relatives, and had an enjoyable holiday. She said that she was quite anxious about flying and was not looking forward to returning home. No other symptoms were elicited. During her appointment she says that she has the strong feeling that she has been in this Emergency Department before and that everything and everyone there seems familiar to her. There is no record of her having been to the hospital before and it would seem that she was only 'passing through' the airport for the first time this morning. Which one of the following is the most likely explanation for her déjà vu experience?
(A) Depersonalisation
(B) Capgras syndrome in a patient with schizophrenia
(C) Temporal lobe epilepsy aura
(D) A normal mental state phenomenon
(E) Head injury
An 18-year-old woman has been brought to the Emergency Department for assessment from the international airport, where she had felt unwell while waiting in the transit queue to check in for her return flight to an Asian country. She had been in the country for three weeks only, sightseeing and visiting relatives, and had an enjoyable holiday. She said that she was quite anxious about flying and was not looking forward to returning home. No other symptoms were elicited. During her appointment she says that she has the strong feeling that she has been in this Emergency Department before and that everything and everyone there seems familiar to her. There is no record of her having been to the hospital before and it would seem that she was only 'passing through' the airport for the first time this morning. Which one of the following is the most likely explanation for her déjà vu experience?
(A) Depersonalisation
(B) Capgras syndrome in a patient with schizophrenia
(C) Temporal lobe epilepsy aura
(D) A normal mental state phenomenon
(E) Head injury