August 25, 2025 - Many of the conditions that cause acquired prosopagnosia happen unpredictably, so you can’t prevent them. All you can do is reduce your risk of having these conditions or circumstances. The best things you can do include the following: Eat a balanced diet and maintain a weight that's healthy for you. Many heart and circulatory conditions, especially stroke, can damage areas of your brain, causing problems like prosopagnosia.

June 24, 2024 - Jim Moody shares his double stroke recovery and life with prosopagnosia (face blindness), revealing a journey of resilience and hope. Tune in to episode 307

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December 28, 2023 - There were many other, less common diagnostic associations with prosopagnosia including SMART syndrome, mitochondrial encephalitis with lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes, limbic encephalitis, post-herpetic encephalitis, post-hypoxic ...

July 1, 2025 - Another study looked at 44 stroke survivors with prosopagnosia and found that the majority of them had damage in the right fusiform gyrus. This area of the brain, part of the temporal and occipital lobes, is thought to play a major role in facial ...

This includes the recognition of ... can be sufficient to induce the condition [19,121,123–126]. In one study it was found that 44% of unilateral RHL stroke patients had prosopagnosia, while another found that out of a cohort of 41 RHL stroke patients, 19 had prosopagnosia ...

1 day ago - Management strategies for acquired prosopagnosia, such as a person who has difficulty recognizing people's faces after a stroke, generally have a low rate of success.

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Acquired cases of prosopagnosia are usually caused by right hemisphere or bilateral damage. We present a right-handed 17-year-old male with a history of focal epilepsy and a new diagnosis of prosopagnosia due to a perinatal stroke affecting the left lingual gyrus, a structure in close proximity ...

May 18, 2026 - An ischemic stroke occurs when a blood clot blocks blood flow to the brain, while a hemorrhagic stroke happens when bleeding from a damaged blood vessel interrupts oxygen rich blood delivery to brain tissue.

August 11, 2024 - We present a right-handed 17-year-old male with a history of focal epilepsy and a new diagnosis of prosopagnosia due to a perinatal stroke affecting the left lingual gyrus, a structure in close proximity to the fusiform face area.

October 21, 2022 - Congenital prosopagnosia is suspected of being inherited in an autosomal dominant fashion, with one copy of the mutated gene from one parent being sufficient to cause the condition; the mode of inheritance as well as the underlying genetic cause, however, remain unclear. Acquired prosopagnosia may be caused by brain injury, neurodegenerative disease, or stroke.

There were many other, less common diagnostic associations with prosopagnosia including SMART syndrome, mitochondrial encephalitis with lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes, limbic encephalitis, post-herpetic encephalitis, post-hypoxic encephalopathy and post-traumatic brain injury.

March 27, 2006 - Sarina Hui-Lin Chien, Exploring Face Perception Efficiency in Patients with Lacunar Stroke: A Study with Familiar and Unfamiliar Face Recognition, Brain Sciences, 15, 10, (1072), (2025).https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci15101072 ...

First report of the case of prosopagnosia GG (right unilateral damage, stroke), showing that his impairment is restricted to faces and concerns the ability to individualize faces based on a holistic representation.

November 1, 2013 - Background: Acquired prosopagnosia is a rare condition characterized by the loss of familiarity with previously known faces and the inability to recognize new ones. It usually occurs after the onset of brain lesions such as in a stroke. The initial identification of prosopagnosia generally relies on a patient's self-report, which can be challenging if it lacks an associated chief complaint.

Prosopagnosia is thought to be ... perception and memory. Prosopagnosia can result from stroke, traumatic brain injury, or certain neurodegenerative diseases....

There are two chief forms of prosopagnosia: acquired and developmental. Acquired prosopagnosia is the result of some form of brain damage, including that caused by strokes, traumatic head injuries, or neurodegenerative medical conditions.

Renzi, E., Perani, D., Carlesimo, G. A., Silveri, M. C. and Fazio, F. (1994). Prosopagnosia can be associated with damage confined to the right hemisphere – an MRI and PET study and a review of the literature.

Interestingly, developmental prosopagnosia appears to present more frequently in individuals with autism spectrum disorder, even though these conditions are independent of one another.Acquired face blindness, however, often results from severe brain injury to the temporal lobe, particularly the fusiform gyrus. Various types of brain injury -- including head trauma, inadequate blood supply to the brain (e.g., stroke), and inflammation of the brain (e.g., encephalitis) -- can suddenly cause problems with facial recognition.