Face blindness is a real medical condition, scientists have said. Prosopagnosia, known as facial blindness, affects at least 2 per cent of people and symptoms include being unable to spot a person in ...

In Thursday's Daily Dose, a viewer has a friend who suffered brain trauma and now can't recognize friends if they have a hat on. They want to know if this is known as any sort of syndrome. Dr. Lacy ...

Sadie Dingfelder is the author of Do I Know You?A Face Blind Reporter’s Journey Into the Science of Sight, Memory and Imagination. Science writer Sadie Dingfelder always knew she was different but ...

After mistaking a random man at the grocery store for her husband, Sadie Dingfelder took tests and learned she is face blind. She has prosopagnosia (what many call face blindness) and aphantasia, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alan Alda is opening up about his struggles with face blindness. In a new interview with People, the 89-year-old year recalled the ...

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DEAR MISS MANNERS: I have developmental prosopagnosia, or face-blindness, and cannot recognize any human faces. I work remotely in a profession that does not require me to interact directly with ...

Emmy and Golden Globe-winning actor Alan Alda is opening up about the time he didn't recognize his own daughter due to a condition he'd later come to find out was prosopagnosia, or face blindness. In ...

It's 1969, downtown Orlando, Florida, it's our kindergarten recess on a warm winter day. The kids are all in coats. The redheaded boys are playing war. The dark-haired boys, whose hair I associate ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I have developmental prosopagnosia, or face-blindness, and cannot recognize any human faces. I work remotely in a profession that does not require me to interact directly with ...

Alan Alda said his face blindness, also known as prosopagnosia, has caused him some embarrassment with his family. In 1981, Alda’s daughter, Beatrice, had a part in his film The Four Seasons (which ...