Francesca Marassi, PhD, professor and chair of biophysics at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), has been awarded a five-year, $13 million program project grant (PPG) by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study misplaced calcification in the eyes and brains of patients suffering from age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and Alzheimer’s disease (AD).
Face Blindness Is Not Always Permanent
Prosopagnosia — also known as face blindness, or the inability to recognize familiar faces — occurred across a range of degenerative and non-degenerative neurologic disorders,