1. PROSOPAGNOSIA
By: Jon Sharff
&
Nick Schultz

2. What is Prosopagnosia?
 Prosopagnosia is also
referred to face blindness
 People with
Prosopagnosia are
impaired in recognizing
faces they have seen
before
 People can recognize
specific facial features
 Prosopagnosic’s can’t
recognize same set of
features repeatedly

3. Types of Prosopagnosia
 Acquired- Develops in adults through brain
damage or head trauma
 Developmental- Developing Prosopagnosia
in minors with no sign of brain damage

4. Who gets Prosopagnosia?
 2% of the world
population has
Prosopagnosia
 Children with Autism
and Asperger Syndrome
are more likely
 Those who have
suffered sever head
trauma, stroke, or other
degenerative diseases
 Caused by damage to
Temperal or Occiptal
lobes

5. DSM-IV
 Prosopagnosia is not officially in the DSM-IV
 Based on the research we have done we can
conclude what it would say
 The essential features include not being able to
notice a set of facial features when seeing them
multiple times
 The Associative Features are from head trauma,
stroke, or other degenerative diseases
 People with Autism or Aspergers Syndrome are
more likely to have Prosopagnosia

6. Case Study
 Our case study is about Jo Livingston
 She is afraid to interact with people because it would be
embarrassing if she could not identify them
 Jo Livingston has been living with Developmental
Prosopagnosia her whole life
 She never knew until one day she saw a woman sit next
to her at a park and did not realize it was her own
granddaughter
 Jo now speaks to teachers at schools about how to deal
with students who may have Prosopagnosia.

7. Is There a Treatment?
 No Formal treatment
 Studies to improve ability to recognize faces
 Best treatment is to help people with
Prosopagnosia cope

8. The End