article_snippet.sent: Prosopagnosia is a neurological disorder characterised by the inability to recognise people's faces.
article_snippet.sent: Some people with prosopagnosia may only struggle to recognise a familiar face, while others will be unable to discriminate between unknown faces, and in more severe cases sufferers cannot distinguish a face as being different from an object.
article_snippet.sent: Prosopagnosia can result from stroke, traumatic brain injury, or some neurodegenerative diseases.
article_snippet.sent: Some degree of prosopagnosia is often found in children with autism and Asperger's Syndrome.
article_snippet.sent: I was then contacted by a psychologist at Bournemouth University who diagnosed me with prosopagnosia, and suddenly everything made sense.'
article_snippet.sent: Dr Sarah Bate, from the Centre for Face Processing Disorders at Bournemouth University, has carried out research into prosopagnosia.
article_snippet.sent: Very rarely some people acquire a cognitive condition characterised by an impairment in face recognition following neurological trauma, but we've recently become aware that many more people have a developmental form of prosopagnosia. '
article_snippet.sent: many more people have a developmental form of prosopagnosia have never suffered any neurological damage, and appear to have simply failed to develop the visual mechanisms that are required for face processing. '