Mental or Behavioral Dysfunction
prosopagnosia
pros·o·pag·no·sia
Subclass of:
Agnosia
Definitions related to prosopagnosia:
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Impaired ability to recognize other human faces in the absence of a vision disorder. It may be a congenital disorder or the result of brain injury.NCI ThesaurusU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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Inability to recognize faces of familiar persons.Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO)The Human Phenotype Ontology Project, 2021
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Inability to recognize familiar faces that is not due to impaired visual acuity or level of consciousness.Sadock's Comprehensive Glossary of Psychiatry and PsychologyBJ Sadock Titles Press, 2012
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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).NLM Medical Subject HeadingsU.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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