英国女子：'我连自己亲人的脸都无法辨认'

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BBC Chinese, Mar 7, 2019
https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp/science-47482619

, which is translated from

Max Evans, Face Blindness: 'I Can't Recognise My Loved-Ones.' BBC, Mar 6, 2019
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-47304678
(a 51-year-old British woman named Boo James of Loughor, Swansea; "the penny dropped in her early 40s when she saw a news item about the condition on television, * * * Richard Warr, from Cardiff, a marketing lecturer at the University of Gloucestershire")

My comment:
(a) First learn about the disease.
(i) Prosopagnosia Information Page. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, undated
https://www.ninds.nih.gov/Disord ... ia-Information-Page
("Prosopagnosia is also known as face blindness or facial agnosia.  The term prosopagnosia comes from the Greek words for 'face' and 'lack of knowledge.' Depending upon the degree of impairment, some people with prosopagnosia may only have difficulty recognizing a familiar face; others will be unable to discriminate between unknown faces, while still others may not even be able to distinguish a face as being different from an object. Some people with the disorder are unable to recognize their own face. Prosopagnosia is not related to memory dysfunction, memory loss, impaired vision, or learning disabilities.  Prosopagnosia is thought to be the result of abnormalities, damage, or impairment in the right fusiform gyrus, a fold in the brain that appears to coordinate the neural systems that control facial perception and memory.  Prosopagnosia can result from stroke, traumatic brain injury, or certain neurodegenerative diseases.  In some cases it is a congenital disorder, present at birth in the absence of any brain damage.  Congenital prosopagnosia appears to run in families, which makes it likely to be the result of a genetic mutation or deletion.  Some degree of prosopagnosia is often present in children with autism and Asperger’s syndrome, and may be the cause of their impaired social development")
(A) fusiform gyrus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusiform_gyrus
(section 1 Anatomy: name)
(B) fusiform (adj; from Latin [noun masculine] fūsus spindle)
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fusiform
(pronunciation)
(ii) Corrow SL et al, Prosopagnosia: Current Perspectives. Eye Brain, 8: 165–175 (2016)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5398751/
("Prosopagnosia can be either acquired or developmental. In acquired prosopagnosia, poor face recognition is the result of brain injury")

There is no need to read the rest of this paper. Little research has been done, and hence little knowledge.

(b)
(i) prosopagnosia (n; "Apparently derived from the German title of a 1947 paper by neurologist Joachim Bodamer describing the condition, titled Die Prosop-Agnosie, derived from Ancient Greek prósōpon, face) and agnōsía, non-knowledge)
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/prosopagnosia
(ii) prosopagnosia
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prosopagnosia
(pronunciation)

(c) Browse -- there is no need to read -- either the original or Chinese translation.  

Here are annotations to the original -- within parentheses.
(i) Loughor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loughor
(pronunciation; map; is a town in the City and County of Swansea, Wales)

Swansea is a city and county, whose population (2017 estimate: 234k) is second largest in Wales, after Cardiff (Welsh capital; city and county, too; 2017 estimate 363k).
(ii) The penny drops.
https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/280900.html

Daily Mirror is a London-based newspaper.
(iii) University of Gloucestershire (public) has three campuses, two in Cheltenham and one in Gloucester.  With City of Gloucester as county town. Gloucestershire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloucestershire
is eastern neighbor of Wales

Cardiff has (A) Gloucester at its 2 o'clock direction 50-mile air distance away, and (B) Swansea in 10 o'clock direction 25 miles away.