11 May 2023
Sufferers of face blindness have hard time getting help
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.