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Scientists re-created the demonic distortions that a patient with prosopometamorphopsia, or PMO, sees when looking at faces, Anna Gibbs<\/strong> reported in \u201cHere\u2019s what faces can look like to people with a rare visual disorder<\/a>\u201d (<\/em>SN: 4\/20\/24, p. 32).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reader John Henderson<\/strong> asked whether research on facial blindness could help scientists better understand PMO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The two disorders have been linked to similar regions in the brain, including the right occipital lobe and fusiform face area, says neurologist Jason Barton<\/strong> of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. So studying one disorder could help illuminate the other.<\/p>\n\n\n