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Scientists from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, have identified the first case of prosopagnosia, commonly known as face blindness, as a symptom following a COVID-19 infection. Prosopagnosia is a neurological disorder defined by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke as the inability to recognize faces. Several studies have emerged describing long COVID’s neurologic impairments. “I predict we will find more of these studies as more patients with long COVID [are] identified,” said Zachary Hoy, M.D., a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Pediatrix® Nashville Pediatric Infectious Disease. “This one describes face recognition as one of the main deficits in the case study patient but goes through to describe several tests used in determining different neurocognitive deficits.”
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