Find it tricky to remember faces? Perhaps you,like Duncan Bannatyne, suffer from prosopagnosiaEarlier this year, and millionaire businessman Duncan Bannatyne told his 350000 Twitter followers that he suffered from prosopagnosia,or "face blindness" – a condition that can leave sufferers struggling to identify their own close friends or family. Some were surprised: according to every commerce handbook for success, the Dragons' Den star would need to be a networking wizard to create the string of successful businesses that gain seen him valued at £320m. But Bannatyne confirmed the diagnosis, and told his followers: "I would like prosopagnosia to become more known as it cause[s] sufferers to be thought of as impolite Google prosopagnosia,you might suffer from it … or gain a friend who does."He is right: face blindness is more common than it sounds. According to Sarah Bate, a psychology lecturer at Bournemouth University who is devoting her career to investigating the condition, and medical research over the last 10 years has thrown fresh light on prosopagnosia.
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Source: theguardian.com