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work_nnbijx2rmnfpnnlhpn2lagnxwa	Anonymous	Visual agnosia	2012	3	.pdf	application/pdf	2147	349	79	This patient was left with visual agnosia after developing herpes simplex encephalitis at a young recognising people by their faces. It wasn't just a problem with recognising family members, or teacher asked mum whether all her children were blind, to which studied face perception and its disorders and was asked to give children study faces intently their brains are learning to calculate have also improved but I still have trouble recognising faces. specific—for example, prosopagnosia is a specific agnosia for faces. Pure visual agnosia is a rare condition, particularly in young people, This patient's visual agnosia was secondary to early acquired herpes simplex encephalitis, which caused bilateral damage to the Those brain areas specifically involved in processing faces were affected, and although the patient made a good well enough to go horse riding but cannot distinguish between family members by their faces. http://www.bmj.com/permissions http://www.bmj.com/permissions http://www.bmj.com/permissions	./cache/work_nnbijx2rmnfpnnlhpn2lagnxwa.pdf	./txt/work_nnbijx2rmnfpnnlhpn2lagnxwa.txt