The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat Summary

Summary of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

In the article, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, a nephrologist discusses a curious case of prosopagnosia. Dr. P is a professor at the School of Music. He has a rare form of face blindness call prosopagnosia. Prosopagnosia is a neurological disorder characterized by the inability to recognize faces. Depending on the degree of impairment some individuals may also not have the ability to recognizes other stimuli, such as objects, cars, or animals. Also, many individuals with this neurological disorder have deficits in aspects of face processing, such as judging age or gender, recognizing certain emotional expressions, or following the direction of a person's eye gaze (Bate). Dr. P a severe

Dr. P approaches faces and objects as if they are an abstract puzzle. In the exam of the rose he was able to attend to color or shape but not the rose as a whole. During the exam Dr. P did not give any indication that his approach to recognizing the rose was anything but usual way of identifying it. Dr. P had lost the inability to recognize objects and faces as a whole unless they are divided into their abstract parts. With this loss of visual part of his brain his brain can up with different pathway to still come visual, see the object and faces he was looking at. Also during the exam Dr. P wife explains Dr. P. functions by making little songs about what he is doing--dressing, washing or eating. He would use songs in place of visual parts of his brain. Uses songs for eating bathing and clothing. If the song is interrupted, he stops what he is doing till he finds his sensorium a clue and then can proceed. The neurologist also comments that Dr. P is a case that contradicts the fundamental axiom of classical neurology: that an individual will reduce or remove the ability to think in abstract. The example of the way Dr. P recognized the rose shows although he has lost the ability to recognize the

Depending on the degree of impairment some individuals may experience symptoms such as the inability to recognizes other stimuli, such as objects, cars, or animals. Also, many individuals with this neurological disorder have deficits in aspects of face processing, such as judging age or gender, recognizing certain emotional expressions, or following the direction of a person's eye gaze (Bates). There are two causes of prosopagnosia (PA) developmental and acquired. “Developmental PA are individuals whose prosopagnosia are genetic in nature, individuals who experienced brain damage prior to experience with faces (prenatal brain damage or immediate brain damage), and individuals who experienced brain damage or severe visual problems during childhood.”(2017). Acquired PA are individuals who used to have normal face recognition, but due brain damage suffered after maturity from head trauma, stroke, and degenerative diseases they no longer able to recognize faces (2017). Dr. P prosopagnosia is caused by acquired brain damage due to a degenerative disease. We can infer that Dr. P has a degenerative disease by his types of paintings earlier in his life and how they evolved. The author of the article, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat,” put it perfectly, “Dr. P art works moved from realism to non-representation to the abstract, but this was not the artist, but the