Prosopagnosia - Etiology
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Abnormal face identity coding in the middle fusiform gyrus of two brain-damaged prosopagnosic patients.

16 May 2009 We report a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) adaptation study of two well-described patients, DF and PS, who present face identity recognition impairments (prosopagnosia) following brain-damage. Comparing faces to non-face objects ... Read more...

Face inversion superiority in a case of prosopagnosia following congenital brain abnormalities: what can it tell us about the specificity and origin of face-processing mechanisms?

29 Apr 2009 In the current study we describe J.M., a 15-year-old boy with a history of congenital brain abnormalities and concomitant visual-processing impairments. J.M.'s most prominent deficit is his impaired face recognition, but formal testing also revealed ... Read more...

The use of mirrors in critical care nursing.

30 Mar 2009 There is no known literature to guide the critical care nurse in the use of mirrors in patient care. This article explores how the author came to believe that mirrors were essential to nursing practice. Misconceptions and assumptions concerning ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Prosopagnosia - Etiology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Abnormal face identity coding in the middle fusiform gyrus of two brain-damaged prosopagnosic patients. 16 May 2009
• Face inversion superiority in a case of prosopagnosia following congenital brain abnormalities: what can it tell us about the specificity and origin of face-processing mechanisms? 29 Apr 2009
• The use of mirrors in critical care nursing. 30 Mar 2009
• Prosopagnosia: a rare presenting manifestation of frontotemporal lobar degeneration. 30 Dec 2008
• Unilateral left prosopometamorphopsia: a neuropsychological case study. 22 Dec 2008
• [Transient prosopagnosia after removal of a tumor in the right occipito-temporal cortex: a case report] 30 Oct 2008
• T2 relaxation time correlates of face recognition deficits in temporal lobe epilepsy. 16 Sep 2008
• Recognition without awareness in a patient with simultanagnosia. 11 Sep 2008
• [Semantic dementia associated with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis] 26 Aug 2008
• Facial emotion recognition deficit in amnestic mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer disease. 8 Apr 2008
• [Semantic dementia: reflexions of a French working group for diagnostic criteria and constitution of a patient cohort] Apr 2008
• Orientation-dependent prosopagnosia. 15 Mar 2008
• Prosopagnosia associated with a left occipitotemporal lesion. 8 Mar 2008
• Face perception: a very special issue. 28 Feb 2008
• Voice recognition and the posterior cingulate: an fMRI study of prosopagnosia. 28 Feb 2008
• Preservation of mouth region processing in two cases of prosopagnosia. 28 Feb 2008
• Structure and function in acquired prosopagnosia: lessons from a series of 10 patients with brain damage. 28 Feb 2008
• Exploring face perception in disorders of development: evidence from Williams syndrome and autism. 28 Feb 2008
• New semantic learning in patients with large medial temporal lobe lesions. 30 Dec 2007
• Prosopagnosia without apparent cause: overview and diagnosis of six cases. 30 Jul 2007

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Technical information about 'Prosopagnosia'

Definition: The inability to recognize a familiar face or to learn to recognize new faces. This visual agnosia is most often associated with lesions involving the junctional regions between the temporal and occipital lobes. The majority of cases are associated with bilateral lesions, however unilateral damage to the right occipito-temporal cortex has also been associated with this condition. (From Cortex 1995 Jun;31(2):317-29)

Descriptor UI: D020238

Alternative terms: Prosopagnosia; Prosopagnosias; Facial Recognition Agnosia; Agnosia, Facial Recognition; Agnosias, Facial Recognition; Facial Recognition Agnosias; Recognition Agnosia, Facial; Recognition Agnosias, Facial; Agnosia for Faces; Agnosia for Face; Prosopagnosia, Developmental; Developmental Prosopagnosia; Developmental Prosopagnosias; Prosopagnosias, Developmental; Prosopagnosia, Acquired; Acquired Prosopagnosia; Acquired Prosopagnosias; Prosopagnosias, Acquired;

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Tree Number: C10.597.606.762.100.650; C23.888.592.604.764.100.650; F01.700.750.100.650;

History Note: 2000