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Originally Posted by dyna mo
this *diagnosis* is nothing more than a boutique designer ailment not unlike adhd. it wasn't even invented (discovered, lol) until a couple years ago. i don't see this recog issue as a stroke or related to a stroke or hit on the head, those have both been researched and studied for decades and decades and the related issues are documented.
i see this more as a selective recog issue. just like selective hearing
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Well, i can safely assume that I am the only one here that has read probably 5 books in the last 2 weeks on neuroscience alone with disorders like this discussed in great detail in most of them and am the only one that doesn't tend to read anything thats not related to psychology (primarily interested in moral psychology), evolutionary biology and neuroscience (primarily interested in theories on consciousness awareness and general brain functions).
There are many forms of agnosia. There is nothing new about not being able to recognize faces as there is an area of the brain responsible specifically for facial recognition and many other areas that can be affected with similar results as i mentioned above. It's very simple. A part of brain recognizes faces. Pathways to that part of the brain or that area itself are damaged or disrupted. Result... difficulty recognizing faces.
Not sure why that would be so difficult to understand. Furthermore, its quite odd that you would be driven to deny it.
To say it was only discovered a couple years ago is obviously wrong since its been well studied and well documented in many forms for well over a century.