[Real-time data from medical care settings to guide public health action].

Real-time data from medical care settings play an increasing role in guiding public health action. The COVID-19 pandemic is a good example; public health decisions depend on current data from the various clinical care settings. The automated processing and communication of health-related data is essential to ensure continuity of reporting and safe resources.

Face Perception and Test Reliabilities in Congenital Prosopagnosia in Seven Tests.

Congenital prosopagnosia, the innate impairment in recognizing faces, is a very heterogeneous disorder with different phenotypical manifestations. To investigate the nature of prosopagnosia in more detail, we tested 16 prosopagnosics and 21 controls with an extended test battery addressing various aspects of face recognition. Our results show that prosopagnosics exhibited significant impairments in several face recognition tasks: impaired holistic processing (they were tested amongst others with the Cambridge Face Memory Test (CFMT)) as well as reduced processing of configural information of faces.

Corrigendum: Do congenital prosopagnosia and the other-race effect affect the same face recognition mechanisms?

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Do congenital prosopagnosia and the other-race effect affect the same face recognition mechanisms?

Congenital prosopagnosia (CP), an innate impairment in recognizing faces, as well as the other-race effect (ORE), a disadvantage in recognizing faces of foreign races, both affect face recognition abilities. Are the same face processing mechanisms affected in both situations? To investigate this question, we tested three groups of 21 participants: German congenital prosopagnosics, South Korean participants and German controls on three different tasks involving faces and objects. First we tested all participants on the Cambridge Face Memory Test in which they had to recognize Caucasian target faces in a 3-alternative-forced-choice task.

Galactose uncovers face recognition and mental images in congenital prosopagnosia: the first case report.

A woman in her early 40s with congenital prosopagnosia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder observed for the first time sudden and extensive improvement of her face recognition abilities, mental imagery, and sense of navigation after galactose intake. This effect of galactose on prosopagnosia has never been reported before. Even if this effect is restricted to a subform of congenital prosopagnosia, galactose might improve the condition of other prosopagnosics.