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Prosopagnosia

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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)

Also Known As:

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

Networked: 7 relevant articles (0 outcomes, 1 trials/studies) for this Disease, Comments

Disease Context: Research Results

Related Diseases

1.	Color Vision Defects (Color Blindness)
2.	Stroke (Strokes)
3.	Mitochondrial Myopathies (Mitochondrial Myopathy)
4.	Schizophrenia (Dementia Praecox)
5.	Illusions (Auditory Illusions)

Experts

1.	Young, Andrew W: 1 article (06/2003)
2.	Quaglino, Antonio: 1 article (06/2003)
3.	Della Sala, Sergio: 1 article (06/2003)
4.	Borelli, Gian Battista: 1 article (06/2003)
5.	Verschoor, A: 1 article (03/2001)
6.	Toorenaar, N: 1 article (03/2001)
7.	Op het Veld, V: 1 article (03/2001)
8.	Njiokiktjien, C: 1 article (03/2001)
9.	Huyser, C: 1 article (03/2001)
10.	de Sonneville, L: 1 article (03/2001)

Drugs and Biologics

Drugs and Important Biological Agents (IBA) related to Prosopagnosia:

1.	OxygenIBA 08/01/1990 - "The PET studies disclosed reduction of blood flow and oxygen metabolism in both occipital lobes in our particular patient who exhibited cerebral color blindness and prosopagnosia." Order ALL the reference details at left...
2.	Carbon MonoxideIBA 03/01/2001 - "Prosopagnosia, the absent facial and bodily expression, and speech prosody were important but varying co-morbid disorders. " 05/01/1998 - "We conclude that prosopagnosia and co-occurring category-specific recognition problems both stem from difficulties disambiguating the stored representations of objects that share multiple visual features and refer to semantically close identities or concepts." Order ALL the reference details at left...
3.	Mescaline (Peyote)IBA 09/01/1989 - "Three disorders of facial recognition and perception in acute schizophrenia and mescaline-induced psychosis are described and illustrated using original clinical and experimental material: "affective prosopagnosia" or stress-related dysfunctional face recognition; "physiognomization" of the environment or persistent illusions and hallucinations of nonspecific faces; and the "mirror phenomenon" or the experience of inner alienation from one's reflected face, which is perceived as independently alive, sinister, and generally physically distorted. " Order ALL the reference details at left...
4.	S 1867IBA 06/01/2003 - "Quaglino's 1867 case of prosopagnosia." Order ALL the reference details at left...
5.	N,N'- dipyridoxylethylenediamine- N,N'- diacetic acidIBA 10/01/1994 - "There have been few reports of MELAS associated with prosopagnosia, topographical disorientation, and PLED. " 10/01/1994 - "[A case of MELAS associated with prosopagnosia, topographical disorientation and PLED]" 10/01/1994 - "We report a case of mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes (MELAS) associated with prosopagnosia, topographical disorientation, and periodic lateralized epileptiform discharge (PLED) on electroencephalography (EEG) in a 23-year-old right-handed man. " Order ALL the reference details at left...
6.	tranilast (N 5')IBA 02/01/1992 - "These disturbances occurred in 25.4% (N = 55) and included transient misidentifications of familiar persons (N = 34), the Capgras syndrome (N = 11), misidentification of themselves in mirrors (N = 5), prosopagnosia (N = 3), misidentification of unfamiliar persons as familiar (N = 1), and misidentification of another person as oneself (N = 1). " Order ALL the reference details at left...

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