What is "face blindness?" The rare neurological disorder, also known as prosopagnosia, makes it difficult and sometimes impossible to recognize faces, including familiar ones or even your own.

Face blindness, a mystifying condition that can trick us into believing we recognize people we've never met or make us fail to recognize those we have, has been previously estimated to affect between ...

Early in the pandemic, a 28-year-old customer service representative and portrait painter caught COVID-19. She had a high fever for a few days and trouble breathing. Her sense of smell and taste ...

One of the biggest downsides of becoming ill with COVID-19 is the inability to be around friends or family during quarantining. But could the virus make it difficult to recognize loved ones at all? A ...

Have you ever bumped into someone with a face that feels familiar, but you just can't quite narrow down why you recognize them, or if you really recognize them at all? For some people with ...

Brad Pitt shared in a recent interview that he believes he has prosopagnosia, a rare disorder characterized by the inability to recognize people's faces, also known as face blindness. In a recent ...

Prosopagnosia is a neurological developmental disorder characterized by extremely poor face recognition — even with recognizing the faces of family and close friends, according to the National ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — How many times have you thought to yourself, ‘I’m so bad at remembering people’s names?’ Imagine not being able to recall faces — not just those of people you meet, but ...

It can happen to anybody: not recognizing somebody after already meeting them. Brad Pitt claims that his inability to remember is a condition called prosopagnosia, or face blindness. “Nobody believes ...

Brad Pitt believes he suffers from prosopagnosia, a rare “face blindness” disorder — but “nobody believes” him. The Oscar winner, 58, said in his August 2022 GQ cover story that he wants “to meet ...

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