The recognition of bodies and faces depends on dedicated areas of the brain, centred on 'an area located in the fusiform gyrus' called 'the fusiform face area', damage to which leads to the development of '
prosopagnosia': an inability to perceive or recognise faces.
Also known as the holistic face processing impairment (11), this disturbance may be specific to isolated units of face, and similar to patients with
prosopagnosia, could handicap perception of face as a whole, attribution of familiarity, and recognition of identity information (12).
Here are some conditions that have been the subjects of memoirs in the twenty years or so: amputation, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (also known as Lou Gehrig's disease), anorexia, anxiety, autism spectrum disorders, bipolar illness, borderline personality disorder, bulimia, cerebral palsy, chronic fatigue syndrome, chronic pain, cystic fibrosis, deformity, depression, diabetes, epilepsy, insomnia, locked-in syndrome, Lyme disease, multiple sclerosis, Munchausen syndrome by proxy, obesity, obsessive-compulsive disorder, Parkinson's disease,
prosopagnosia (face-blindness), schizophrenia, stuttering, stroke, Tourette syndrome, and vitiligo.
It's not a fantastical disease (even though it sounds like one), and its proper name is
prosopagnosia.
Damage to the posterior right hemisphere in humans can produce
prosopagnosia. (48) The right-dominant organization might be associated with the 'left field advantage' for face recognition; human subjects process face information faster when presented to the left hemifield than to the right hemifield.
This was likely to be permanent, similar to neurological impairments of face recognition such as
prosopagnosia and some forms of autism.
In the 16-episode drama, Suho plays the lead role of Lee Yoo-chan, a CEO of an IT company who has face recognition disorder called
prosopagnosia. His co-stars are Ha Yeon-soo, Oh Chang-suk and Kim Ye-won.
Combine that with Jasper's face blindness (
prosopagnosia) - he can't recognise his own face, let alone his dad's or the other kids' at school - and a supposed murder on his street, and things become rather chaotic.
Combine that with Jasper's face blindness (
prosopagnosia) and a supposed murder on his street, and things become rather chaotic.
The fitness to practise committee found that Mr Jordan acted outside his scope of practice as a dispensing optician by diagnosing multiple patients with
prosopagnosia (face blindness).
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