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Prosopagnosia is a neuropsychological condition that impairs the sufferer's ability to recognize faces. It's also known as face-blindness, and those who are afflicted lack a skill that comes ...
Prosopamnesia (Greek: προσωπον = "face", αμνησια = forgetfulness) is a selective neurological impairment in the ability to learn new faces. There is a special neural circuit for the processing of faces as opposed to other non-face objects.
Prosopagnosia, [2] also known as face blindness, [3] is a cognitive disorder of face perception in which the ability to recognize familiar faces, including one's own face (self-recognition), is impaired, while other aspects of visual processing (e.g., object discrimination) and intellectual functioning (e.g., decision-making) remain intact.
Prosopometamorphopsia (PMO [1]), also known as demon face syndrome, [2] is a visual disorder characterized by altered perceptions of faces. In the perception of a person with the disorder, facial features are distorted in a variety of ways including drooping, swelling, discoloration, and shifts of position.
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Can COVID-19 cause face blindness? A new case study finds evidence of prosopagnosia and other neuropsychological problems in a 28-year-old long-COVID patient. Woman develops 'face blindness' at 28.
Rarely, blindness is caused by the intake of certain chemicals. A well-known example is methanol, which is only mildly toxic and minimally intoxicating, and breaks down into the substances formaldehyde and formic acid which in turn can cause blindness, an array of other health complications, and death. [66]
Lost in a crowd. Brad Pitt recently opened up about his unique struggle to remember people’s faces, an experience he thinks is brought on by prosopagnosia. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s Ups ...