Impaired holistic coding of facial expression and facial identity in congenital
prosopagnosia. Neuropsychol 2011;49:1226-1235.
It gives
prosopagnosia some room and explores how such a disease affects a person in their everyday life, how insecure or small they might be prone to feeling, how introverted and private they might tend to be, and how it affects the creation of memories without having visuals as an anchor.
(1994)
Prosopagnosia can be associated with damage confined to the right hemisphere--an MRI and PET study and a review of the literature.
As well as recommending tinted lenses as a treatment for
prosopagnosia, he gave the lenses to a patient with diplopia following a brain injury.
Neuropsychological testing demonstrated objective evidence of a relatively isolated
prosopagnosia. See Table 1.
With facial recognition, transient misidentification, abnormal self-identification, Capgras syndrome (denial of a familiar person and identifying them as a replacement, imposter, or double), and in some cases
prosopagnosia (disordered recognition of familiar faces) have been described [150].
One such disorder is developmental
prosopagnosia -- a condition in which people are born with the inability to recognize familiar faces, even their own, due to the failure of the brain's facial recognition machinery to develop properly.
Jack has
prosopagnosia but keeps it secret, and while growing closer, they thoughtfully explore the meanings of identity, acceptance, and overcoming obstacles through alternatively-narrated chapters.
Moreover, there were no signs of
prosopagnosia, and the Bells Test revealed no visuospatial dysfunction.