Do I Know You? Face Blindness after Brain Injury
Face Blindness,(Prosopagnosia) is the lack of ability to recognise faces. Including people who are very familiar; sometimes even your own face. Today the focus is on Prosopagnosia, more commonly known as 'Face Blindness' after brain injury, other causes are also mentioned below. While the cause may be different, the outcome is similar. About Prosopagnosia or Face Blindness Over the past two weeks we talked about left brain right brain along with left and right brain function. Prosopagnosia, or face blindness as I will call it from here on in, was an example of what can happen when damage occurs. Reading about Prosopagnosia got me thinking. While I have met people who have face blindness after brain injury, I knew very little about it. Today I share what I have learned on my week of exploration. Some early learnings, I believe key points, that came to me while exploring face blindness were: [ordered_list style="lower-alpha"] a) This is not a person being rude…