Mar 22, 2024 · Sharrah, who is now 59 and lives in Clarksville, Tennessee, was later diagnosed with prosopometamorphopsia, or PMO, an extremely rare neurological disorder that causes human faces to appear...

Mar 22, 2024 · A man with a rare condition called prosopometamorphopsia, or PMO, in which faces are distorted shares his vision of the “demons” he sees when he looks at people’s faces.

Prosopometamorphopsia (PMO), [1] also known as demon face syndrome, [2] is a neurological disorder characterized by altered perceptions of faces. In the perception of a person with the disorder, facial features are distorted in a variety of ways including drooping, swelling, discoloration, and shifts of position.

Mar 28, 2024 · Sharrah is one of the very few people in the world with prosopometamorphopsia, or PMO, a rare condition that causes a person to see severely stretched features with deep grooves on the...

Mar 22, 2024 · Someone he knew taught visually impaired people and suggested he might have prosopometamorphopsia, or PMO. The extremely rare neurological disorder of perception causes faces to appear distorted...

When faces or parts of faces are perceived as distorted, the condition is known as prosopometamorphopsia (PMO). “Prosopo” comes from the Greek word for face prosopon while “metamorphopsia” refers to perceptual distortions.

Mar 22, 2024 · This condition is named prosopometamorphopsia (PMO), and causes people to perceive others as having faces with altered shapes, colors, sizes and facial feature positions. Now, in a new paper in...

Apr 10, 2024 · With fewer than 100 reported cases in medical literature, PMO is an exceedingly rare disorder. People afflicted with PMO experience an unsettling visual defect that is specific to faces.

Mar 22, 2024 · Prosopometamorphopsia is a rare neurologic disorder of visual perception in which facial features appear altered in shape, texture, position, or color. Face processing depends on a complex...

Dec 14, 2023 · Smith has a rare condition called prosopometamorphopsia (PMO), in which faces appear distorted in shape, texture, position or color.