Word: agnosia
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Dates: during 1955-1955
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...From San Francisco comes a MEDICINE story dealing with a case so rare that the attending physician admits: "We have nothing exactly like it in world literature." The Lost Faces tells what it is like to go through life with visual agnosia...
...doctors finally diagnosed the case as visual agnosia, an extremely rare disorder whose victims cannot recall images to compare with what they currently see. But J.S. suffered from a highly specialized kind-a complete blank for faces, or "pro-sopagnosia." Said Dr. Donald Macrae: "We have nothing exactly like it in world literature...
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