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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.
Hyperphantasia is the condition of having extremely vivid mental imagery. [1] It is the opposite condition to aphantasia, where mental visual imagery is not present. [2] [3] The experience of hyperphantasia is more common than aphantasia [4] [5] and has been described as being "as vivid as real seeing". [4]
The phenomenon was first described by Francis Galton in 1880 in a statistical study about mental imagery. [2] Galton wrote: To my astonishment, I found that the great majority of the men of science to whom I first applied, protested that mental imagery was unknown to them, and they looked on me as fanciful and fantastic in supposing that the words "mental imagery" really expressed what I ...
Symptoms of stiff person syndrome typically begin in the upper body, according to the Cleveland Clinic. As it progresses, symptoms typically move to the lower body, making it difficult to walk and ...
Stiff person syndrome is a rare autoimmune neurological disorder that causes stiffness and muscle spasms in the body, according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke ...
Celine Dion is sharing some personal news with her fans. In an emotional video posted to Instagram on Thursday, the 54-year-old entertainer reveals that she is battling Stiff Person Syndrome, a ...
Dahlberg Borer Newcomer syndrome; Dandy–Walker syndrome; De Barsy syndrome; de Clérambault's syndrome; De Quervain syndrome; De Winter syndrome; Dead arm syndrome; Deficiency of the interleukin-1–receptor antagonist; Degenerative disc disease; Dejerine–Roussy syndrome; Delayed sleep phase disorder; Delusional misidentification syndrome ...
Celine Dion, who on Thursday announced she's battling Stiff Person Syndrome, has been diagnosed with an incurable neurological disease so extremely rare that, according to the famed Cleveland ...