they end up seeing that face distorted as well. But now, a patient with a unique variation on the condition has helped scientists finally visualize what PMO patients are seeing. The patient in ...

with only about 75 case reports about people with PMO having been published. The severity of the condition varies from person to person, with different parts of the face being affected ...

Imagine if every time you saw a face, it appeared distorted. Well, for those who have a very rare condition known as prosopometamorphopsia (PMO), which causes facial features to appear distorted ...

Sharrah is one of the very few people in the world with prosopometamorphopsia, or PMO, a rare condition that causes ... s real-time perception of the face distortions,” lead author Antônio ...

“In other studies of the condition, patients with PMO are unable to assess how accurately ... because the visualization itself also depicts a face, so the patients will perceive distortions ...

Imagine a person’s face. Now imagine that whenever you ... When properly diagnosed, neurologists can sometimes treat the condition that is causing the PMO, such as a seizure or stroke.

Duchaine’s lab transitioned from studying face blindness—a condition where someone struggles to recognize people’s faces (or even themselves)—to studying the more niche condition of PMO.

With PMO, however, a person will often have ... For others with the condition, like Victor, the entire face of another person appears misshapen, much like a “funhouse mirror,” according ...

However, when Sharrah looked at his roommate’s face, he was startled to see ... Doctors often mistake PMO for mental health conditions like schizophrenia or psychosis. And while there is some ...

For now, PMO is both a fascinating and disturbing condition, and one that could potentially teach us a great deal about human face perception. Given that PMO is so rare and we still have so much ...