Chat with us, powered by LiveChat A 48-year-old man with a sudden onset of visual processing was seen by a neurologist, who noted normal sensorimotor - Writeden

A 48-year-old man with a sudden onset of visual processing was seen by a neurologist, who noted normal sensorimotor functions and normal visual field processing. Nonetheless, the patient had a problem in recognizing even familiar faces. A brain MRI study revealed an infarct in the left occipitotemporal (fusiform) gyrus. This condition of selected recognition failure of familiar faces is called: