sorry not sure if i put in the request, but do you have something on prosopagnosia (face blindness)? i'm not entirely sure how i would describe the faces... thank you 🫶
Writing Notes: Prosopagnosia
Prosopagnosia - A form of visual agnosia in which the ability to perceive and recognize faces is impaired, whereas the ability to recognize other objects may be relatively unaffected.
Also called face blindness.
A condition where you have difficulty recognising people's faces.
The term was originally limited to impairment following acute brain damage, but a congenital form of the disorder has since been recognized.
Can be distinguished from prosopamnesia, which is an abnormal difficulty in remembering faces, even though they are perceived normally: The condition may be congenital or acquired.
Awareness of the disorder was greatly elevated with the bestselling book The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (1985) by British neurologist Oliver Sacks.
Symptoms
The main symptom of prosopagnosia is having difficulty recognising faces.
You'll still see the parts of a face normally, but all faces may look the same to you.
It affects people differently.
Some people may not be able to tell the difference between strangers or people they do not know well. Others may not recognise the faces of friends and family, or even their own face.
To people with prosopagnosia, people all look the same (barring hair color, skin pigmentation, body shape, and very specific details such as scars). The fact that people generally don't have a distinctive outfit or hairstyle makes interacting with people extremely confusing for them.
Other symptoms of prosopagnosia can include difficulty with:
recognising emotions on people's faces
recognising people's age and gender
recognising characters and following plots in TV programmes or films
recognising other things, such as cars or animals
finding your way around
Difficulty recognising faces may make it harder to form relationships, or cause problems at work or school. This may affect your mental health and may lead to social anxiety or depression.
There's no treatment for prosopagnosia, but there are things you can do to help recognise people.
tell people about the condition before you meet them
ask people you're close to for help identifying others
ask people to introduce themselves when you greet them
use people's voices or body language to tell them apart
make a note of distinctive features about a person such as hairstyle, jewellery or accessories
use name tags or write down the names of colleagues and where they sit at work
Prosopagnosia usually is permanent.
Some persons with acquired prosopagnosia, however, spontaneously recover facial-recognition abilities.
This could be the result of either physical recovery from injury, with eventual restoration of brain function, or reorganization of the facial-processing locations in the brain.
Prosopagnosia lies on a continuum and stricter vs. looser diagnostic criteria employed in prosopagnosia studies in the past 13 years have identified mechanistically very similar populations, providing justification for expanding the criteria to include those with milder forms of it.
It is important to use a combination of self-reported daily-life difficulties and validated objective measures when diagnosing prosopagnosia.
There are pros and cons to relying just on self-reports because it can be challenging to judge your own abilities or relying solely on objective lab measures that may not reflect everyday life.
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