prosopagnosia
MONDO:0003227Mondo
Findings
No curated finding names prosopagnosia yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
Impaired ability to recognize other human faces in the absence of a vision disorder. It may be a congenital disorder or the result of brain injury.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0003227), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Features
1 feature
What the disease is reported to present with, and how often among people who have it — never how often a feature means the disease. HPO, hp/releases/2026-09-01.
- ProsopagnosiaMondoHP:0010528
Where it sits
- A kind of
- Narrower terms (1)
Other names
2 names
Resolves to: prosopagnosia
- Also called
- face blindnessprosopagnosia (disease)