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From the Quarks archive (TV premiere in 2012). An estimated two million people in Germany suffer from a hereditary form of face blindness, meaning they cannot identify or distinguish a person's face. In medicine, face blindness is also called prosopagnosia. Quarks visits a family in which three generations suffer from congenital face blindness. What's it like not being able to recognize even your own family and close friends by their faces? Author: Jakob Kneser --- Thanks for watching! Did you enjoy the video? Then subscribe now to the only official Quarks channel on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/Quarks?sub_co... Quarks on Facebook:   / quarks.de   Also visit: https://www.quarks.de #Quarks on Instagram:   / quarks.de     / beautyquarks   #facialexpression #faceblind #brain