PROSOPOAGNOSIA (The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat)

Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - 06:49 in Health & Medicine

Prosopagnosia or prosopagnosia, is a perceptual deficit acquired or congenital central nervous system that prevents individuals who are affected to properly recognize people's faces, it is determined by a damaged area of the brain to the task, turn fusiform.Studied thoroughly in the eighteenth century by several scientists, including John Hughlings Jackson and Jean Martin Charcot.  read more

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