Prosopagnosia or 'face blindness' is a rare disorder that makes it difficult recognize faces, including familiar ones or even your own.
Prosopagnosia or "face blindness" is a rare disorder that makes it difficult recognize faces, including familiar ones or even your own.June 27, 2022, 4:46 PM UTCBrad 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., the 58-year-old actor told writer Ottessa Moshfegh that he struggles to remember new people.
TODAY reached out for comment from Pitt about his efforts to get diagnosed but didn't hear back. But his comments about face blindness have shed light on a serious and debilitating disorder.“We define it as trouble with recognizing facial identity in the absence of low-level vision problems or higher-level cognitive problems,” Brad Duchaine, Ph.D., professor of psychological and brain sciences at Dartmouth College, told TODAY.
Where prosopagnosics really struggle is when they see people out of context, like bumping into a co-worker at the grocery store. “People with prosopagnosia are more likely to recognize family and close friends than they are to recognize people they’re not as close to, but they still sometimes have trouble recognizing faces they’ve seen thousands of times," Duchaine said.
People with prosopagnosia may cope by focusing on other traits to identify a person, such as their hair or voice, said Duchaine.Prosopagnosia is typically diagnosed by a neurologist through a combination of self-reporting and testing to measure facial recognition. “You have to have the experiences in your everyday life where you struggle to recognize faces, then you also need to do poorly on these objective measures,” said DeGutis.
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