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prosopagnosia

 [pros″o-pag-no´se-ah]
inability to recognize the faces of other people or one's own features in a mirror, due to damage to the underside of both occipital lobes.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.

pros·o·pag·no·si·a

(pros'ō-pag-nō'sē-ă),
Difficulty in recognizing familiar faces.
[prosop- + G. a- priv. + gnōsis, recognition]
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prosopagnosia

(prŏs′ə-păg-nō′zē-ə, -zhə, prō′-)
n.
A disorder characterized by the inability to recognize people by their faces. In some cases it is present at birth, and in others it is the result of a brain injury. Also called face blindness.

pro′so·pag·no′sic (-zĭk), pro′so·pag·no′si·ac′ (-zē-ăk′) adj. & n.
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prosopagnosia

Neurology Inability to recognize familiar faces unexplained by defective visual acuity or ↓ consciousness or alertness
McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

pros·o·pag·no·si·a

(pros'ŏ-pag-nō'zē-ă)
Difficulty in recognizing familiar faces.
[prosop- + G. a- priv. + gnōsis, recognition]
Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012

prosopagnosia 

Inability to recognize faces. It may be due to a lesion in one area of the inferotemporal (IT) cortex. See agnosia.
Millodot: Dictionary of Optometry and Visual Science, 7th edition. © 2009 Butterworth-Heinemann
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However, our patient's symptoms of prosopagnosia and a specific language impairment are more unusual in that they are relatively discreet deficits which indicate dysfunction of two apparently distinct systems: facial recognition and language.
Jack is loud, charming and utterly lost, because although he seems like the life and soul, he actually has prosopagnosia (face blindness), meaning he forgets even what his brothers look like.
This disease is called prosopagnosia, or face blindness, and affects many healthy individuals, hampering their ability to recognize or remember the face of any person.
Prosopagnosia is another residual defect, which carries a poor prognosis.
Tambien hay reportes de la prosopagnosia, condicion en la que en particular el complejo amigdaloide y del giro fusiforme [27] lesionados, llevan a la perdida de la capacidad de reconocer caras humanas" [28].
Edkins challenges the everyday reliance on this body part as an object of truth and knowledge of personhood by analyzing the condition of "prosopagnosia"--the inability to recognize familiar faces, also known as "face blindness".
RTLA-FTLD, also known as right variant semantic dementia (SD), is marked by early personality change, prosopagnosia, and topographagno while language deficit would appear in intermediate stage.[sup][4] It is rather different from classic SD characterized by left temporal lobe atrophy and early aphasia.
Identification, diagnosis and treatment of prosopagnosia. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 208(1), 94-95.
Isto e, pacientes que tinham prejuizo no reconhecimento de faces (prosopagnosia; Busigny & Rossion, 2010; Ramon, Busigny, & Rossion, 2010) poderiam ter a percepcao da expressao das emocoes preservadas (Hargrave et al., 2002; Lee et al., 2013; Weigelt et al., 2011).
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