Is this patient still able to work and be part of the professional society otherwise named economically active while suffering from prosopagnosia? If this patient does not recover what will happen then of her economically and financially provided there is no cure, only palliative treatment engendering slight or no improvement over time. How active in society could she become again?
@twixiechick You cope with it just like any other disorder. I have lots of friends and family, a husband and a child. Ok, so I have to dress my kid in clothes that stand out and yes I take a picture of him with my phone before we leave the house everyday, in the off chance he does wonder off or leave my sight I can show other people exactly what he looks like and get assistance finding him. But I'm certainly not lonely. Btw, don't take this comment as a lecture.
@twixiechick I wasn't offended by your comment at all. I'm just letting you know that it's only lonely if you let it be. You take what you get in life and do with it what you can. I can't pick my own picture out of a family album, but I'm not sad about it. I'm a very happy person.
I think this woman is lying, I don't believe she has proso. If she did, she would be able to recognize the background and shirt color of the photo she had just taken of her mother - those were obvious clues even with only 1/3 of the photos showing.
@themoderndejavu I don't think she's lying because she looks so emotional at the end of this video when se does not recognize her own face.. I do not believe that you can fake things like that..
I don't understand why she didnt look at the hair. They were all different colors and styles, and she appears to be able to notice hair? Eg the Madonna, Marilyn Monroe moment.
I don't understand why she didnt look at the hair. They were all different colors and styles, and she appears to be able to notice hair? Eg the Madonna, Marilyn Monroe moment.
@RHIANNAKM It wouldn't matter because they were showing her random pictures. If they were showing her pictures of a particular group of people and she knew her picture was in there somewhere, the hair texture / style might have tipped her off that it was her. That picture could have literally been anyone and pictures from the neck up are the most difficult. There's no height, body type, or movement to use as clues. Hair can only help so much but you still to put it in context.
When asked to pick out her mom from those photographs, why couldn't she tell from the backgrounds in the pictures?? They were all different, and she should remember where she was when she took the picture...
@ashish018690 It's not a hereditary condition or something brought on by age although they can be symptoms of such disorders such as dementia. In this woman's case, she just has brain damage. Unless she suffers more brain damage in the future, it won't get worse. She'll just learn slowly how to adapt & work around it.
i got same kinda problem. from a distance when i look at people face , whom i knw, i feel like, yes i knw this person , but i could not recognize him/her completely untill i speaks with the person. i got other problem too, with names. i tend to mix up people names very oftenly, even with people i work everyday.
few days back , i was havin a mustache and beared, they were long as i havn't shaved them since a month. when i shaved and looked in the mirror, i was surprise to see my face.
Its a problem with facial recognition only after damage to a part of the brain called the parietal lobe. Objects are fine as are colours and voices. Many people adapt to prosopagnosia by colour coding children and paying more attention to voices to recognise people.
She didn't think her face was ugly!! She said, "that better not be me" because she didn't recognize it at all, which would be really bad if it was her own face-which it was, so she was disappointed that now she can't even recognize her own face.
but wait she thought that photo was ugly too hers and bruce. There's a strange relationship with recognizing faces and whats desirable facial features. maybe what is desirable comes with familiarity, like say her mom has round blue eyes and because she is used to seeing them , that would have been a desirable to her but becuase she doesnt recognize anything, theres no preferation in features... i
A good way around faceblindness is voice recognition. Unfortunately for some with prosopagnosia they also have another problem that prevents them from properly interpreting what they hear. That is not the case with me. My ears are my best friend, they are what allow me to hide my faceblindness so well.
I think the sadder part about this is the fact that her prosopagnosia was caused by an injury, so in her case she's lost something. I'm 4'9" so the way I can tell myself in a picture with other people is because I'm usually the shortest one and if that doesn't work I usually can use certain context and place myself from what I might have been wearing one day. However there was a wedding I was a bridesmaid in a few years back and all of use were wearing the same color dress
@mastermalone and there was a picture taken of all of us sitting in the cab. Because we were all sitting down all of our heads were at roughly the same height in the picture and all of our hair was up and the color of all the dresses were the same, the only person from that picture I'm able to pick out is the bride (who of course was wearing white). I know I'm in the picture but I have to have someone point me out every time. For me though, it's not sad or shocking. I was born this way.
I wonder if people she would like to recognize wore something specific to them (that she perhaps gave to them) if that would help her realize who it actually was.
@allyd2779 It would. That's one of the ways that people with prosopagnosia are able to recognize others. Looking for distinctive features/hair styles/facial hair etc. can be very helpful. Assuming they don't change their appearance drastically (or in your case, don't take off the item given to them by the prosopagnosic person) those aspects should be recognizable across different situations and contexts.
I have a mild case of prosopagnosia, but this woman is a lot worse than me! Very sad... I didn't recognize her mom either, if not by the clothes also. But at least I am able to recognize myself.
Hello, I just wanted to let you know of research being conducted at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities on Prosopagnosia. We are interested, specifically, about how this disorder affects children. You can check out our website or send us an email (yonaslab@umn.edu) to find out more information!
that look on her face when she was told the picture in the end was actually her and she couldn't recognize herself broke my heart. i felt so sorry for her.oh Lord, i hope i can find strength to face these kinds of disappointments and patients in the future.last week i saw a patient with upper motor neuron syndrome, cerebellar syndrome, parkinsonism syndrome. and her brain will continue to degenerate. and yet, she was smiling as if knowing it'll be the end soon. i really couldn't face her.
Damage to the Visual Cortex. Usually V1 resulting in the inability to perceive faces. These people usually are able to recognize somebody via voice or smell, or in this case, the clothing a particular person wears. Intriguing part of Psychology.
@radicalaceshasbrin They're perceiving the same thing you see when you meet someone for the first time. A stranger's face. There are absolutely no visual problems, no blurring or blacking out of the face. It's simply the retention of faces designated in the visual cortex of the occipital lobe that has been impaired. So every face they come across, even their own, is as new as the first time you and I meet someone.
@radicalaceshasbrin Yes. The visual cortex is not directly related to the temporal and frontal lobes, which are responsible for retrograde and anterograde amnesia. So in Terry's case it's not a memory problem that is causing her inability to recognize faces. It's simply damage to V1 of her visual cortex. There are many different types of Agnosias, prosopagnosia being one of the most intriguing in the field of psychology.
that is so interesting because she could recognise hairstyles...what if she started to sketch peoples faces like they were objects and start to sketch their individual features, would her brain not start to utilise different parts to recognice them as shapes rather than faces?
yes, from what i understand, they can identify features of people's faces, and can put them together to recognize that it is a face. but they cant associate a face with a specific person.the video called faceblindness-prosopagnosia by TheHour has a guy who generalized types of faces into groups and he can memorize unique characteristics of a face that he associates with a person, like penelope cruz's large nose.
No, it is caused by a lesion to the fusiform face area situated in the temporal lobe. It is common for propagnosia patients to use distiguishing features to recognise people - i.e moles, distinct noses, voice, hairstyle etc.
9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors brought me here. This is a sad, but intruiging kind of agnosia.
GydoKamst 1 week ago
I couldn't even recognize half the people in that video.... :S
Magnum11892 1 week ago
Is this patient still able to work and be part of the professional society otherwise named economically active while suffering from prosopagnosia? If this patient does not recover what will happen then of her economically and financially provided there is no cure, only palliative treatment engendering slight or no improvement over time. How active in society could she become again?
PauleQueenie 3 weeks ago
am i the only one who laughed at her reaction to her own picture?
curselikfucknsailors 3 weeks ago
she probably can't recognize her own face .. which is alright..
Nimzi 1 month ago
thumbs up if your here for rose-hulman
TheEdwardgoldthorpe 2 months ago
@TheEdwardgoldthorpe brophy ಠ_ಠ
hoguemr 2 months ago
That's sad...I can't imagine how lonely that would feel. :/
twixiechick 3 months ago
@twixiechick You cope with it just like any other disorder. I have lots of friends and family, a husband and a child. Ok, so I have to dress my kid in clothes that stand out and yes I take a picture of him with my phone before we leave the house everyday, in the off chance he does wonder off or leave my sight I can show other people exactly what he looks like and get assistance finding him. But I'm certainly not lonely. Btw, don't take this comment as a lecture.
elgmalone 1 month ago
@twixiechick I wasn't offended by your comment at all. I'm just letting you know that it's only lonely if you let it be. You take what you get in life and do with it what you can. I can't pick my own picture out of a family album, but I'm not sad about it. I'm a very happy person.
elgmalone 1 month ago
She understands the zen koan..... what did your original face look like before you were born.
Juanster23 3 months ago
I think this woman is lying, I don't believe she has proso. If she did, she would be able to recognize the background and shirt color of the photo she had just taken of her mother - those were obvious clues even with only 1/3 of the photos showing.
themoderndejavu 4 months ago
@themoderndejavu I don't think she's lying because she looks so emotional at the end of this video when se does not recognize her own face.. I do not believe that you can fake things like that..
BerciSSedeN 2 months ago
the end is so fuckin funny!
ToyPineapple 4 months ago
Dan Harmon indirectly led me here
KobraCola 4 months ago
poor woman :'(
and to @Mik3Anix she is not ugly, YOU ARE!
liquidus2172 4 months ago
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Thats you!
Really?
Yes.
thinking: *oh fuck i'm so ugly*
Mik3Anix 4 months ago
@Mik3Anix ur a fucking clown i hope karma gets you
mizz123 4 months ago
@Mik3Anix LOL high five
kleenexvincent678 4 months ago
Oh no. She can't even recognise herself )':
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I don't understand why she didnt look at the hair. They were all different colors and styles, and she appears to be able to notice hair? Eg the Madonna, Marilyn Monroe moment.
RHIANNAKM 5 months ago
@luvav7x
I don't understand why she didnt look at the hair. They were all different colors and styles, and she appears to be able to notice hair? Eg the Madonna, Marilyn Monroe moment.
RHIANNAKM 5 months ago
@RHIANNAKM It wouldn't matter because they were showing her random pictures. If they were showing her pictures of a particular group of people and she knew her picture was in there somewhere, the hair texture / style might have tipped her off that it was her. That picture could have literally been anyone and pictures from the neck up are the most difficult. There's no height, body type, or movement to use as clues. Hair can only help so much but you still to put it in context.
elgmalone 1 month ago
This is really sad. :(
Gik1618 5 months ago
Can she remember family events? Birthdays and such? And what kind of accident happened?
leannvlewis 5 months ago 3
@leannvlewis she should be able to remember the events and who was there, but not be able to put the faces in the scenes in her mind
saderguy 4 months ago
When asked to pick out her mom from those photographs, why couldn't she tell from the backgrounds in the pictures?? They were all different, and she should remember where she was when she took the picture...
luvav7x 5 months ago 3
@luvav7x That's a good point, I never thought of that.
Maybe she has difficulty recognising other details too?
Gik1618 5 months ago
@Gik1618 Hmm, maybe so.. Or maybe she didn't think to look at them
luvav7x 5 months ago
The doctor was smug
LauraDania 6 months ago
Everyone should have a friend with prosopagnosia. They're the only people in the world who can be totally unbiased when you ask how you look.
spook81793 6 months ago 3
What to do if you become incapable to recognise faces? Become a photographer of course!
mclaudtt 6 months ago
@octoberrain08 thanks a lot for response.
ashish018690 7 months ago
It's sad she seems so insecure, when she can't even do anything about it.
patu8010 8 months ago
As other have pointed out - the end was so sad.
Even worse, the doctor almost sounded smug.
Sanshaino 8 months ago
i thought that was amusing at first.
both problems r not at very serious stage. am worried if they can get worse with age? or they are hereditary?
ashish018690 9 months ago
@ashish018690 It's not a hereditary condition or something brought on by age although they can be symptoms of such disorders such as dementia. In this woman's case, she just has brain damage. Unless she suffers more brain damage in the future, it won't get worse. She'll just learn slowly how to adapt & work around it.
octoberrain08 8 months ago
i got same kinda problem. from a distance when i look at people face , whom i knw, i feel like, yes i knw this person , but i could not recognize him/her completely untill i speaks with the person. i got other problem too, with names. i tend to mix up people names very oftenly, even with people i work everyday.
few days back , i was havin a mustache and beared, they were long as i havn't shaved them since a month. when i shaved and looked in the mirror, i was surprise to see my face.
ashish018690 9 months ago
Its a problem with facial recognition only after damage to a part of the brain called the parietal lobe. Objects are fine as are colours and voices. Many people adapt to prosopagnosia by colour coding children and paying more attention to voices to recognise people.
Preacher898 9 months ago
@Preacher898 nope temporal lobe. if it was parietal lobe then she would probably have trouble with touch
Trip86able 9 months ago
@Trip86able You are indeed correct sir, my mistake
Preacher898 6 months ago
but she still recognizes voices, right?
ChaosN 9 months ago
@ChaosN yes, she can.
fookthetoothfairy 9 months ago
She didn't think her face was ugly!! She said, "that better not be me" because she didn't recognize it at all, which would be really bad if it was her own face-which it was, so she was disappointed that now she can't even recognize her own face.
Volcanic9 9 months ago
if somebody said "what if i were to say that that's you?" I would immediately guess that it would probably be me
Volcanic9 9 months ago
The end is so sad... she didn't like her face without knowing it was her...
thatg98y6 9 months ago
but wait she thought that photo was ugly too hers and bruce. There's a strange relationship with recognizing faces and whats desirable facial features. maybe what is desirable comes with familiarity, like say her mom has round blue eyes and because she is used to seeing them , that would have been a desirable to her but becuase she doesnt recognize anything, theres no preferation in features... i
tigrisx23 10 months ago
A good way around faceblindness is voice recognition. Unfortunately for some with prosopagnosia they also have another problem that prevents them from properly interpreting what they hear. That is not the case with me. My ears are my best friend, they are what allow me to hide my faceblindness so well.
mastermalone 11 months ago 4
I think the sadder part about this is the fact that her prosopagnosia was caused by an injury, so in her case she's lost something. I'm 4'9" so the way I can tell myself in a picture with other people is because I'm usually the shortest one and if that doesn't work I usually can use certain context and place myself from what I might have been wearing one day. However there was a wedding I was a bridesmaid in a few years back and all of use were wearing the same color dress
mastermalone 11 months ago
@mastermalone and there was a picture taken of all of us sitting in the cab. Because we were all sitting down all of our heads were at roughly the same height in the picture and all of our hair was up and the color of all the dresses were the same, the only person from that picture I'm able to pick out is the bride (who of course was wearing white). I know I'm in the picture but I have to have someone point me out every time. For me though, it's not sad or shocking. I was born this way.
mastermalone 11 months ago
@mastermalone Oops I meant limo, not cab.
mastermalone 11 months ago
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noblebeast 11 months ago
The end is so messed up.
FatBoySlim696 11 months ago
Oh wow that'd be so scary to know that you have that and not be able to do anything about it
emz33 11 months ago
I wonder if people she would like to recognize wore something specific to them (that she perhaps gave to them) if that would help her realize who it actually was.
allyd2779 1 year ago
@allyd2779 It would. That's one of the ways that people with prosopagnosia are able to recognize others. Looking for distinctive features/hair styles/facial hair etc. can be very helpful. Assuming they don't change their appearance drastically (or in your case, don't take off the item given to them by the prosopagnosic person) those aspects should be recognizable across different situations and contexts.
stephgunit 1 year ago
The end is so damn sad....
nag9208 1 year ago 3
What's wrong with her dog? 0:54
giac01 1 year ago
@giac01 It's a cocker spaniel, so it's probably suffering from TCTF, Too Cute To Function. Very sad.
GoldenGashBell 1 year ago
@giac01
nothing? the dog has it's tail docked.
310BPM 11 months ago
so sad....
skaania 1 year ago
Let's keep testing her. Yup, she definitely can't recognise faces. Let's test her some more.
imaginenoreligion 1 year ago 32
I have a mild case of prosopagnosia, but this woman is a lot worse than me! Very sad... I didn't recognize her mom either, if not by the clothes also. But at least I am able to recognize myself.
maythegirl2002 1 year ago
@maythegirl2002 me too :) or I should say me either lol You learn to live with it though.
ArtemisMS 1 year ago
OMG that look at the end :'(
rplorgeoux 1 year ago 26
Wow.. That's so awful. The end is saddd!
sinistrelcentaur 1 year ago 2
man that psycologist was super mean, she like basically was fking with her the whole time
dworthin84 1 year ago
I'm interviewing a woman with this disorder. Its sad, but I'm super excited!
Ari721 1 year ago
was she sad about not seeing herself. or that she was that ugly l0l!@
MrAshBoner 1 year ago
Ha. I agree, what a sad sad ending.
TheTimeTraveler100 1 year ago 3
Hello, I just wanted to let you know of research being conducted at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities on Prosopagnosia. We are interested, specifically, about how this disorder affects children. You can check out our website or send us an email (yonaslab@umn.edu) to find out more information!
YonasLab 1 year ago
that look on her face when she was told the picture in the end was actually her and she couldn't recognize herself broke my heart. i felt so sorry for her.oh Lord, i hope i can find strength to face these kinds of disappointments and patients in the future.last week i saw a patient with upper motor neuron syndrome, cerebellar syndrome, parkinsonism syndrome. and her brain will continue to degenerate. and yet, she was smiling as if knowing it'll be the end soon. i really couldn't face her.
buttercupcake87 1 year ago 4
this is not funny AT ALL to everyone that commented it is a serious problem and is very sad !
iheartunibrows 1 year ago 2
I wish I had this disease, me and the wife would get along much better!!
djs259 1 year ago 4
Damage to the Visual Cortex. Usually V1 resulting in the inability to perceive faces. These people usually are able to recognize somebody via voice or smell, or in this case, the clothing a particular person wears. Intriguing part of Psychology.
IrishNickO 1 year ago
@IrishNickO what are they actually perceiving when they see a face?
radicalaceshasbrin 1 year ago
@radicalaceshasbrin They're perceiving the same thing you see when you meet someone for the first time. A stranger's face. There are absolutely no visual problems, no blurring or blacking out of the face. It's simply the retention of faces designated in the visual cortex of the occipital lobe that has been impaired. So every face they come across, even their own, is as new as the first time you and I meet someone.
IrishNickO 1 year ago 3
@IrishNickO Does that mean that she also lost the ability to recognize faces from before her accident.
Like memories of her parents?
radicalaceshasbrin 1 year ago
@radicalaceshasbrin Yes. The visual cortex is not directly related to the temporal and frontal lobes, which are responsible for retrograde and anterograde amnesia. So in Terry's case it's not a memory problem that is causing her inability to recognize faces. It's simply damage to V1 of her visual cortex. There are many different types of Agnosias, prosopagnosia being one of the most intriguing in the field of psychology.
IrishNickO 1 year ago
She seemed dissapointed at the end.
MunchTheLard 1 year ago
wow the ending...
atheistworstenemy 1 year ago 2
What a bitch at the end.
NatralisticPantheist 1 year ago
i think that was a little tactless at the end
physicalKinetics 1 year ago 2
wow she seeems so distressed when asked to identify a face...
Wiggyify 2 years ago
the end was so fuckin sad
macarion 2 years ago 118
@macarion sad and funny
eaglestriker24 1 year ago
that is so interesting because she could recognise hairstyles...what if she started to sketch peoples faces like they were objects and start to sketch their individual features, would her brain not start to utilise different parts to recognice them as shapes rather than faces?
Nadafashion 2 years ago
yes, from what i understand, they can identify features of people's faces, and can put them together to recognize that it is a face. but they cant associate a face with a specific person.the video called faceblindness-prosopagnosia by TheHour has a guy who generalized types of faces into groups and he can memorize unique characteristics of a face that he associates with a person, like penelope cruz's large nose.
jamjamboree 2 years ago
No, it is caused by a lesion to the fusiform face area situated in the temporal lobe. It is common for propagnosia patients to use distiguishing features to recognise people - i.e moles, distinct noses, voice, hairstyle etc.
Akhmatova1 2 years ago
oh! thats so sad!
kevinwhited16 2 years ago 42