Episode · Stuff You Should Know · 2022-12-06
Books mentioned on How Face Blindness Works
It’s not that the person who can never remember meeting you is snobby or even absent-minded; they may have a fascinating – and often difficult – neurological condition called prosopagnosia, known more commonly as face blindness. See omnystudio.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks is a classic clinical collection of neurological case studies written by the renowned neurologist.
Recommended“Oliver Sacks actually had it the famed neurologist who Awakenings was based on his work and he wrote Awesome books like the man who Mystic his wife for a hat there you go”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Awakenings
“Oliver Sacks actually had it the famed neurologist who Awakenings was based on his work and he wrote Awesome books like the man who Mystic his wife for a hat there you go”
Passing An Anthropologist on Mars
“and an anthropologist on Mars I think was one of his two um he had like severely and he just chalked it up to being kind of flighty kind of absent-minded”