Most people who believe they have prosopagnosia will never receive a diagnosis because they do not score poorly enough on face processing tests. Their face skills are judged intact, and symptom severity ignored, even if they're failing to recognise close family members. Thread👇

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Forgot to say, given the issues associated with cognitive tests of face recognition, I reaffirm suggestions that prosopagnosia should be diagnosed using symptoms alone.

You can find a copy of the paper here: https://t.co/dEASfWXmrq Currently in press at Behavior Research Methods.

I therefore recommend that the DSM-5 must change to a tailored approach to diagnosing individual types of cognitive impairments, rather than the current one-size-fits-all method. Such an approach will ultimately improve patients' lives, and scientific progress.

In my paper, the DSM5 failed to diagnose 30-38% of cases. When I pooled their scores together on a varity of face identity tests, I found they exhibited objective problems in face perception, and unfamiliar and familiar face memory, and further showed these through meta-analyses

I therefore set out to highlight these problems in developmental prosopagnosia. These individuals suffer lifelong problems recognising friends, colleagues, and even family members. Importantly, some researchers have said we should diagnose this condition using the DSM-5 approach.

Remarkably, this recommendation is true across all cognitive processes. When I read this, and considered the heterogeneity in cognitive tests' validities, reliabilities and biases, it seemed to me that such an approach will fail to diagnose many patients.

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