Listening to the Voices from the Hearts of Patients with Developmental Prosopagnosia

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  • Fujimoto Hiromi
    Department of Rehabilitation, Tsuruga Onsen Hospital.
  • Terakawa Tomohiro
    Dementia Disease Medical Center, Tsuruga Onsen Hospital
  • Hirayama Kazumi
    Yamagata Prefectural University of Health Sciences
  • Tamai Akira
    Dementia Disease Medical Center, Tsuruga Onsen Hospital Department of Neuropsychiatry, Tsuruga Onsen Hospital

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  • 発達性相貌失認を呈した症例の心の声を聴く

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<p>  Developmental prosopagnosia is a symptom where people cannot even recognize the face of a familiar person despite the absence of problems with their eyesight, intelligence, attention, memory and so on. No organic brain damages or abnormalities on the imaging test were found. We showed three cases of developmental prosopagnosia and compared their facial recognition functions, facial expression recognitions and so on. Furthermore, we conducted interviews on their experiences and feelings that they had had since their childhood. All of the three cases show that the patients still have a lot of difficulties in leading a social life such as the luck of understanding on their workplaces. Therefore, it seems the most important to conduct educational activities to make known the existence of developmental prosopagnosia and make understood inconvenience caused by it.</p>

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