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| • | Term first used
by Bodamer, 1947 |
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| • | Inability to
recognize familiar faces |
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| • | Visual acuity is
normal |
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| • | Caused by lesion
to right inferior temporal |
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| lobe |
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| • | May be congenital
(“developmental |
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| prosopagnosia”) |
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| • | Patients
compensate by using other |
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| recognition cues:
clothing, gait, voice, etc. |
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