Prosopagnosia in two patients with CT scan evidence of damage confined to the right hemisphere.
Two patients developed a severe and long-lasting inability to recognize familiar faces (prosopagnosia) after a stroke, which was shown by CT scan to be confined to the right hemisphere. The area of softening involved the entire cortico-subcortical territory of distribution of the right posterior cerebral artery. These data suggest that in a few cases right occipito-temporal damage may be sufficient to produce prosopagnosia.
D000368:Aged; D000377:Agnosia / Q000473:pathology*; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000473:pathology*; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral; D005145:Face; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed