Here’s what distorted faces can look like to people with prosopometamorphopsia
The visualizations may help educate clinicians about this underdiagnosed condition
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These “demonic” images, with stretched features and deep grooves (right side of each panel), depict what a man with a rare neurological condition perceived while looking at a man’s and woman’s faces (left side of each panel).
A. Mello et al/The Lancet 2024