This Extremely Rare Neurological Condition Makes Faces Appear …
Mar 22, 2024 · PMO symptoms differ greatly from person to person. Faces may appear droopy, discolored or oddly textured, and specific features may seem to have moved to different parts of the face....
A man with prosopometamorphopsia shares the distorted ‘demon ... - CNN
Mar 22, 2024 · Sharrah has a rare condition called prosopometamorphopsia, or PMO, in which parts of the faces of other people appear distorted in shape, texture, position or color. Objects and other parts of a...
Prosopometamorphopsia - Wikipedia
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.
Demon Face Syndrome (Prosopometamorphopsia) - WebMD
Nov 25, 2024 · Symptoms like migraines, seizures, or sudden changes to your speech or vision could be a sign of epilepsy or a stroke, the latter of which needs urgent medical attention.
Prosopometamorphopsia (PMO) | Faceblind.org
An overview of PMO covering symptoms, subtypes, neural basis, ongoing research, and more.
Here’s what distorted faces can look like to people with ...
Mar 21, 2024 · PMO is poorly understood, with fewer than 100 cases cited since 1904. Patients report a wide variety of facial distortions. While the patient in this study sees extremely stretched features with...
Rare disorder causes man to see people's faces as 'demonic' - NBC News
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...
A Rare Visual Disorder Twists Faces Out of Shape
Dec 14, 2023 · Smith has a rare condition called prosopometamorphopsia (PMO), in which faces appear distorted in shape, texture, position or color.
What causes prosopometamorphopsia, the rare 'demon-face' syndrome PMO
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 forehead,...
A Rare Disorder Causes People to See Demon-Like Faces
Apr 10, 2024 · People afflicted with PMO experience an unsettling visual defect that is specific to faces. These individuals perceive a variety of facial distortions; for example, a general widening of the face, sinister grins, enlarged noses, pronounced eyebrows, and deep forehead lines.
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