FAMOUS CASE: PROSOPAGNOSIA

OLIVER SACKS

He was a British neurologist, psychiatry and a writer. Do you know him? 

He is Oliver Sacks who also known as the best author in writing his own patients' case studies. In 2010, he revealed that he was suffered from face blindness. And the disease was noticed by himself during his middle age. Then, during his meeting with his own older brother in Australia whom he hadn't seen much for more than 3 decades, he found out that his brother also had the same difficulties. 

Even though he categorize his disease as moderate, but still, he barely to recognize his own personal assistant of six years and his psychiatrist whom he had been seeing twice in a week. Unfortunately, this wonderful man had died on 30 August 2015 at age of 82. 

You may read his masterpieces at The New York Times 

CHUCK CLOSE

He is not a psychiatrist or neurologist. But, he is an artist! 

Known as Chuck Close, he is such wonderful painter even though actually he suffers a spinal artery collapse that left him a quadriplegic. He was born with prosopagnosia. But, how he can even paint?

According to his explanation, he able to recognize some people if they were static or 'flattened out' images (potraits), but if they move their head even for inch, then it become a new face that he never known before! 

For your information, he still do paint since it was the only way for him to recognize people arounds him.