Fewer than 100 cases of prosopometamorphopsia (PMO) have been reported so far.
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“Imagine waking up one morning, and suddenly everybody in the world looks like a creature in a horror movie.” Furthermore, Mello said that many patients “don’t tell anybody or tell very few people about it because they’re afraid of what others are going to think.”. For the first time, experts were able to see the world from the point of view of someone with PMO. They did so by asking the patient to describe the differences between a person’s photo and their in-person features.
“Imagine waking up one morning, and suddenly everybody in the world looks like a creature in a horror movie,” Victor describedResearchers believe PMO is linked with dysfunction in the brain network that handles facial processing. However, they’re not sure about what triggers said dysfunction. While some patients had histories of head trauma, stroke, epilepsy, or migraines, others didn’t experience any structural changes in their brains..
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