Description Prosopagnosia, also called face blindness is an impairment in the recognition of faces. They may not recognise the faces of their closest friends and family, or their own face in the mirror. Not surprisingly, prosopagnosia can create social problems. One of the patients is Barry Wainwright. He is a husband and a father. He said that he have the condition prosopagnosia which can be inherited or caused by brain injury, although neither applies to him. True prosopagnosia is caused by an impairment in the right hemisphere of the brain the specifically identifies faces. For him, the world is like a sea of unfamiliar faces. When he walks down the street, as far as he knows everyone he passes is a stranger. But then when an old woman stops …show more content…
For Barry, voices don 't really help him. He finds it easier to pinpoint a person through context. If someone comes downstairs in the morning, he knows it must be his wife, Margaret. But if they go to the supermarket and he loses sight of her, he won 't be able to find her. Thus, he walks up and down the aisles studying people 's shoes and clothes for visual clues, hoping she notices him and waves. Now she always wears her "supermarket jacket" - a red one that is quite distinctive. When they first met, Margaret would get upset that Barry didn 't notice a new haircut, but he explained that it 's not that he doesn 't care, just that he can 't register any …show more content…
Nevertheless, prosopagnosia is not related to any memory dysfunction, memory loss, impaired vision, or learning disabilities. Prosopagnosia can results from stroke, traumatic brain injury or certain neurodegenerative diseases. Furthermore, study published in the August issue of The American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A is the first report of the prevalence of a congenital or developmental form of the disorder. Congenital prosopagnosia usually appear to run in families, which makes it the result of a genetic mutation or deletion. In Barry’s case, he has prosopagnosia since earlier which means he has an impairment in the right hemisphere of the brain that