Prosopagnosia (face blindness) Do you suffer from this? Brad Pitt has it

People who are diagnosed with prosopagnosia often fall into one of two categories: either they are born with it or they acquire it.

Prosopagnosia is not related to memory problems, vision loss, or learning disabilities, but it's sometimes associated with other developmental disorders, such as autism spectrum disorder, Turner syndrome, and Williams syndrome. However, estimations reveal that as many as one in every 50 people may struggle with some lifetime form of the disorder, and experts hypothesize that it may run in families.

According to Blum, research “suggests that congenital, or lifelong, prosopagnosia is less prevalent.”

According to Andrey Stojic, director of general neurology at the Cleveland Clinic, children born with the illness “don’t seem to have any visible structural abnormality” in the brain.

Notably, doctors don’t fully understand what causes congenital prosopagnosia because there aren’t any obvious brain lesions in persons who have it.

In contrast, people who develop prosopagnosia later in life may have brain abnormalities brought on by a trauma or head injury.

According to Bonakdarpour, individuals can also develop prosopagnosia while dealing with Alzheimer’s illness or following a stroke.

What therapies are available for prosopagnosia?

Borna Bonakdarpour, MD

Assistant Professor of Neurology (Behavioral Neurology

Prosopagnosia is now untreatable, according to Bonakdarpour. The problem can be treated, though.

People who have the syndrome frequently attempt to distinguish between people by focusing on physical characteristics like hair color, gait, or voice.

Usually, a set of tests that measure a person’s memory and face recognition help neurologists make the diagnosis.

As doctors frequently take care to ensure that a patient’s face blindness is not an indication of a more extensive degenerative neurological disorder, Blum adds, “it can be a drawn-out process.”

It’s noteworthy that many people with the illness, like Pitt, won’t get an official diagnosis.

Many of the difficulties he’s discussing and the issues he has are not unusual for people to go through them, according to Stojic.

He continued, “It may be relatively crippling for folks. “Others find it difficult to comprehend,”