In a recent interview, actor Brad Pitt disclosed that he had prosopagnosia, a rare neurological condition sometimes referred to as “facial blindness.”
In a piece for the New York Times, Dani Blum outlines the symptoms, causes, and treatments of the illness.
According to Borna Bonakdarpour, a behavioral neurologist at Northwestern Medicine, the primary symptom of prosopagnosia is face blindness rather than color blindness or general vision impairment.
There is no link between the condition and learning disabilities, vision issues, or memory loss, according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
It is not the same as forgetting or sometimes struggling to find the right term, Blum adds. Each person will experience prosopagnosia to varying degrees.
