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