Surprisingly, many people suffer from Brad Pitt’s disease. The first symptom: decreased memory of faces

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   Prosopagnosia is the inability to recognize human faces. It is a disease associated with visual impairment
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   This disorder interferes with social, family and professional life. It also does not help with socialization. It causes social unrest and embarrassment
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   You probably know someone with this condition, although you may not know their difficult name. It comes from the Greek language and is derived from words meaning face and ignorance. This explains exactly what it is
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   A new study suggests the number of people affected by face blindness may be slightly higher than previously estimated, affecting 1 in 33 people.
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Prosopragnosia is more common than we thought

These are the results of a new study involving 3,000 people. 341 participants completed an online questionnaire and passed two objective tests. First, they were asked about the difficulties they might have in recognizing faces in everyday life. Then, using tests, the researchers examined how difficult it was to recognize new faces or to recognize familiar faces.

Just over 100 participants were found to have some form of face blindness, including 31 with severe prosopagnosia and 72 with a milder form of the disorder. That’s a rate of just over 3%, or one in 33 — more than one in 40 previously assumed.

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What does it come from? Most researchers used very strict diagnostic criteria, so many people who had severe facial recognition problems in everyday life were mistakenly told that they did not have prosopagnosia.

Prosopragnosia can be congenital or acquired

Face blindness can occur due to brain injury in the occipital or temporal region, known as acquired prosopagnosia. It affects about one in 30,000 people in the United States. There are 000,000 people, explains Joseph DeGautis, assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Virginia and author of the study.

The scientist confirmed that there is also another type of facial recognition agnosia – caused by genetic or developmental abnormalities, and this condition in people affected by it lasts a lifetime, and is not the result of an injury. This is known as developmental prosopagnosia and affects 1 in 33 people.

This is important news for those affected by this disease. “It is important to know that you have real, objective evidence of prosopagnosia, even in a mild form. It can help you take steps to reduce its negative impact on your daily life, such as informing colleagues or seeking treatment,” DeGutis added.

According to the researcher, milder forms of face blindness respond better to certain treatments, such as cognitive training, than severe cases.

“In a world of increasing social isolation, especially among adolescents and young adults, nurturing and maintaining social connections and good face-to-face interactions is more important than ever,” he concluded.

What is prosopragnosia? It is commonly referred to as Brad Pitt Syndrome

We cannot recognize the faces of friends, neighbors, loved ones, and even our parents. In extreme cases Prosody blindness can manifest itself in the fact that The patient is unable to even recognize his own face.

Two patients from He suffers from prosopagnosia Topographical agnosia – They do not recognize places and have problems returning home, but they also have trouble distinguishing between different things, such as type of writing, animals and plants.

Specialists dealing with the disease have not yet found the cause of such problems. According to scientists’ hypotheses, its source may lie in a malfunction of the temporal lobe or the neural pathways that connect different parts of the brain.

According to experts, The cause of his uncle recognized faces It can also be caused by a genetic mutation. The causes of this disease may result from both birth defects and accidents in which one of the parts of the brain related to vision is damaged.