Sentences with phrase «facing blindness from»

Today, 10 million Americans are either blind or facing blindness from macular degeneration.

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Neuroscience sleuths are on the case of face blindness, a strange malady that makes some people unable to distinguish friend from foe.

Again, this doesn't mean the fusiform gyrus isn't important — irregularities there have been linked to a condition called face blindness, which prevents humans from recognizing individuals — but it could mean that the human ability boils down to more than just some unique brain matter we've evolved to carry.

«Chief among them is vitamin A. Individuals who have been deprived of sufficient vitamin A during gestation tend to have narrow faces and skeletal structure, small palates and crowded teeth.16 Extreme vitamin A deprivation results in blindness, skeletal problems and other birth defects.17 Individuals receiving optimal vitamin A from the time of conception have broad handsome faces, strong straight teeth, and excellent bone structure.

Watching a period piece starring a selection of character actors from Ireland and the United Kingdom, each of them clad in bulky, largely indistinguishable winter garb and sporting various combinations of facial hair and cold - chapped cheeks, is as close as many of us will ever get to experiencing face blindness.

If Sebastian Stan, who plays a rival US Olympics team coach (and who, for me, always suffers from face - blindness), is lucky, we'll forget he's even in this film.

Jack Masselin, the young man in Jennifer Niven's Holding Up the Universe, suffers from prosopagnosia, commonly called face blindness.

It so happens that the artist suffers from severe lifelong prosopagnosia, a condition that is also called face blindness, a disability which he discussed in 2012 with Dr. Eric Kandel and Charlie Rose during a series of interviews titled The Creative Brain.

The 74 - year - old New York artist has a condition called face blindness, but it has not stopped him from painting famous friends such as Barack Obama, composer Philip Glass and actor Brad Pitt.

Provided placement services for individuals who face employment barriers such as learning disabilities, deafness, blindness, and other barriers that prevent them from obtaining employment to meet their employment goals.