11 May 2023

Sufferers of face blindness have hard time getting help

From First Up, 5:45 am on 11 May 2023

If you find yourself in situation where someone greats you like an old friend but you cant quite place their face. you might have something called prosopagnosia - or - face blindess. It's a rare condition but it could affect as many as 100,000 people in Aotearoa. US researchers are investigating the possibility that a rare few might be getting it from covid too Mary Kieseler, is a doctoral student at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire who's leading a study into face blindness. She told me people with the condition have a really hard time getting medical help.