Agnosia for Faces (Prosopagnosia)

1 August 1962

journal article
research article
Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Neurology

Vol. 7 (2) , 92-100
https://doi.org/10.1001/archneur.1962.04210020014002

Abstract

Difficulty in the recognition of faces as a symptom in patients with cerebral disease is not a new observation. It was first described by Charcot¹ in 1883 and by Wilbrand² in 1892. Case reports alluding to the phenomenon were later published by Millian,³ Hoff and Pötzl⁴ and Donini.⁵ However, it was Bodamer⁶ who definitively described the deficit in 1947 on the basis of 3 personally observed cases, and who proposed the name "prosopagnosia" for this special type of visual agnosia. Realizing that "prosopagnosia" is often merely one aspect of the clinical picture of severe object or form agnosia, Bodamer took pains to emphasize that this is not always the case and that recognition of faces may be preserved in patients with object agnosia. In this connection, he cited the cases of Lissauer⁷ and Nielsen.⁸ Ajuriaguerra and one of us (H.H.) recently observed

Keywords

AGNOSIA

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