Prosopagnosia

Prosopagnosia, also known as face blindness, is a failure to recognize facial features. This disease is accompanied with multiple types...

History The first recorded case of prosopagnosia was in 1947, when Dr. Bodamer diagnosed two patients with a condition that he described...

Fusiform gyrus is basically the main affected area of the brain when one has prosopagnosia. This part of the brain is specialized in...

Actually, there is no treatment for prosopagnosia. Nonetheless, the Centre for Face Processing Disorders is attempting to cure face...

Chuck Close is an american painter, artist and photographer born in July 5, 1940, who suffers from prosopagnosia. He turned his disease...

Not everyone knows, but Brad Pitt has prosopagnosia. Surprised? Me too. How can an internationally awarded actor not recognize people...

Another person that you may not know that had prosopagnosia was the reputed neurologist Oliver Sacks. Likewise other prosopagnosics,...