Episode two of a two-part BBC-4 special program hosted by neurologist V.S. Ramachandran that explains his key findings in certain instances of brain damage that have long been viewed as mere curiosities by the scientific community. This episode focuses on prosopagnosia, the Capgras delusion, and temporal lobe epilepsy.

My apologies for the audio being slightly off, the black bar at the bottom of the video, as well as the temporary video defects; this was the only copy of the video I could find.

This is Part 3 of 5.

FacelessFelix silently reads his copy of New Scientist. This video refers to an article (Cover heading: “Do I know you? Living in a world without faces”) which appeared in New Scientist in the issue of 25th November 2006. The article, entitled “Hello Strangers”, deals with prosopagnosia, a neurological condition which prevents those afflicted from recognising faces – even those of people whom they have been seeing regularly for years. It’s like visiting YouTube, where you have never seen most of the faces before – but this time it is your daily life.

National Post photo editor Jeff Wasserman appears on The Hour, a national current affairs show on CBC television hosted by George Stroumboulopoulos, interviewed about Prosopagnosia – face blindness, by reporter Hilary Doyle