Prosopagnosia
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Monday, November 23, 2009

In what sense 'familiar'? Examining experiential differences within pathologies of facial recognition.

20 Jul 2009 Explanations of Capgras delusion and prosopagnosia typically incorporate a dual-route approach to facial recognition in which a deficit in overt or covert processing in one condition is mirror-reversed in the other. Despite this double dissociation, ... Read more...

The delusional misidentification syndromes: strange, fascinating, and instructive.

30 May 2009 The delusional misidentification syndromes (Capgras' syndrome, Frégoli syndrome, intermetamorphosis syndrome, syndrome of subjective doubles) are rare psychopathologic phenomena that occur primarily in the setting of schizophrenic illness, affective ... Read more...

Functional MRI reveals compromised neural integrity of the face processing network in congenital prosopagnosia.

26 May 2009 The summed activity of multiple nodes of a distributed cortical network supports face recognition in humans, including "core" ventral occipitotemporal cortex (VOTC) regions, and "extended" regions outside VOTC. Many individuals with congenital ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Prosopagnosia'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• In what sense 'familiar'? Examining experiential differences within pathologies of facial recognition. 20 Jul 2009
• The delusional misidentification syndromes: strange, fascinating, and instructive. 30 May 2009
• Functional MRI reveals compromised neural integrity of the face processing network in congenital prosopagnosia. 26 May 2009
• 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
• Emotional attention in acquired prosopagnosia. 26 Apr 2009
• Dorsal-ventral integration in the recognition of motion-defined unfamiliar faces. 20 Apr 2009
• The use of mirrors in critical care nursing. 30 Mar 2009
• Super-recognizers: people with extraordinary face recognition ability. 30 Mar 2009
• Normal gaze discrimination and adaptation in seven prosopagnosics. 16 Mar 2009
• The clinical profile of right temporal lobe atrophy. 16 Mar 2009
• Is the loss of diagnosticity of the eye region of the face a common aspect of acquired prosopagnosia? 27 Feb 2009
• Visual mental imagery in congenital prosopagnosia. 12 Feb 2009
• Who is who: areas of the brain associated with recognizing and naming famous faces. 30 Jan 2009
• Prosopagnosia: a rare presenting manifestation of frontotemporal lobar degeneration. 30 Dec 2008
• Unilateral left prosopometamorphopsia: a neuropsychological case study. 22 Dec 2008
• Arthur Benton and a bunch of Dutch flowers. 30 Nov 2008
• Reduced structural connectivity in ventral visual cortex in congenital prosopagnosia. 21 Nov 2008
• Prevalence of hereditary prosopagnosia (HPA) in Hong Kong Chinese population. 13 Nov 2008
• Comment on prevalence of hereditary prosopagnosia (HPA) in Hong Kong Chinese population. 13 Nov 2008

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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;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; congenital; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; embryology; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; radiotherapy; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; veterinary; ultrasonography; virology;

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

History Note: 2000