Of late, there's been an upsurge in interest in deja vu amongst academic circles.  Here are some resources that students, researchers and people who are interested in their own experience of deja vu may find interesing.

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  • Arnaud, F.L.  (1896).  Un cas d’illusion du “déjà-vu” ou de “fausse mémoire.”  Annals of Medical Psychology (Paris) 3, 455-471.
  • Bancaud, J., Brunet-Bourgin, F. Chauvel, P. & Halgren, E. (1994). Anatomical origin of deja-vu and vivid memories in human temporal-lobe epilepsy.  Brain, 117: 71-90.  
  • Banister, H. & Zangwill, O.L.  (1941a).  Experimentally induced visual paramnesias.  British Journal of Psychology, 32, 30-51.
  • Banister, H. & Zangwill, O.L.  (1941b).  Experimentally induced olfactory paramnesias.  British Journal of Psychology, 32, 155-175.
  • Bartolomei, F., Barbeau, E., Gavaret, M., Guye, M., McGonigal, A., Regis, J., & Chauvel, P. (2004). Cortical stimulation study of the role of rhinal cortex in deja vu and reminiscence of memories, Neurology, 63: 858-864. 
  • Brown, A.S. (2003). A review of the deja vu experience. Psychological Bulletin, 129: 394-413.
  • Brown, A.S. (2004). Getting to grips with déjà vu. Psychologist, 17: 694-696.
  • Brown, A.S. (2005). Looking at deja vu for the first time. Scientist, 19: 20-21.  
  • Brown, A.S. (2004). The déjà vu illusion.  Current Directions in Psychological Science, 13: 256-259.
  • Ender, E. (2006). “A feeling of ‘déjà-vu’: memory-science in Gérard de Nerval and Marcel Proust.” Science in Context (special 2005 issue on literature and science), 18 (4), 2006.  
  • Flaherty, J.A. & Bellur, S.N.  (1981).  Mental side-effects of amantadine therapy: its spectrum and characteristics in a normal population.  Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 42, 344-345.
  • Funkhouser, A.  (1983).  The “dream” theory of déjà vu.  Parapsychological Journal of South Africa, 4, 107-123.
  • Funkhouser, A.  (1995).  Three Types of Déjà vu.  Mental Science Network, 57, 20-22.
  • Harper, M.A.  (1969).  Déjà vu and depersonalisation in normal subjects.  Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 3, 67-74.
  • Irwin, H. J.  (1996).   Childhood antecedents of out-of-body and Deja Vu experiences.  Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, 90(3), 157-173.
  • Marshall, R.D. & Douglas, C.J.  (1994).  Phenylpropanolamine-induced psychosis: potential predisposing factors.  General Hospital Psychiatry, 16, 358-360.
  • Mullan, S.  & Penfield, W.  (1959).  Illusions of comparative interpretation and emotion.  Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry, 81, 269-274.
  • Sno H.N.  (2000).  Déjà vu and jamais vu.  In Berrios, G.E. and; Hodges, J.R. (Eds.)  Memory disorders in psychiatric practice. Cambridge: University Press, 338-347.
  • Sno, H.N. & Linszen, D.H.  (1990).  The Déjà Vu Experience: Remembrance of Things Past?  The American Journal of Psychiatry 147(12), 1587-1595.
  • Sno, H.N., Linszen, D.H. & De Jonghe, F.  (1992).  Art Imitates Life: Déjà vu Experiences in Prose and Poetry.  British Journal of Psychiatry, 160, 511-518.
  • Sno, H.N., Schalken, H.F.A., De Jonghe, F. & Koeter, M.W.J.  (1994).  The inventory for déjà vu experiences assessment: Development, utility, reliability and validity.  The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 181, 27-33.
  • Spatt, J. (2002).  Déjà vu: Possible parahippocampal mechanisms.  Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 14, 6-10.
  • Tabet, N. & Sivaloganathan, S.  (2001).  A case of persistent déjà vu in an elderly patient.  Progress in Neurology and Psychiatry, 5, 18-19.
  • Taminen, T. & Jääskeläinen, S.K.  (2001).  Intense and recurrent déjà vu experiences related to amantadine and phenylpropanolamine in a healthy male.  Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, 8, 460-462.
  • Vignal, J.P., Maillard, L., McGonigal, A.,  & Chauvel, P. (2007). The dreamy state: hallucinations of autobiographic memory evoked by temporal lobe stimulations and seizures. Brain, 130: 88-99