What cognitive disorder does the individual in Oliver Sacks' book 'The Man Who Mistook His Wife...
What cognitive disorder does the individual in Oliver Sacks' book 'The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat', chapter one?
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(Answer) Prosopagnosia is a neurological perceptual deficit that occurs in the congenital central nervous system. This issue prevents the patient from properly recognising the faces of people. In the book, doctor P suffers from this problem and he is quite unaware of his having the condition. The title of the book alludes to the fact that a person as familiar as a wife is mistaken for a hat when this disease afflicts a person.
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What cognitive disorder does the individual in Oliver
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