called prosopagnosia. this is people can recognize all kinds of objects but they have difficulty recognizing a face. and this is discovered in around 1947 by botomer who has several patients, one patient because young guy who was shot in the head, survived, everything came back, all of his visual senses, his memory, everything but he had difficulty with one thing. he could not recognize faces. he couldn't recognize his family. couldn't recognize -- he couldn't recognize his own image when he looked inhe mirror. he realized that there are different forms of agnosias, of prosopagnosias, they are some what familiar to each other. he saw two patients who had the same thing. after time, he came along and realized there are two forms, a congenital form and acquired form. he studied the acquire form, the congenital form, which is what chuck close suffers from, is actually quite common. so two and a half percent of the people have a significant form of prosopagnosia, mild forms of prosopagnosia may be ten percent

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prosopagnosia only got its name in the 1940s, when a couple of soldiers came back from world war ii withead injuries and couldn't recognize their wife or parents. and it took another 50 years for science to discover that people could be born face blind, like jacob hodes, and jo livingston, a retired teacher; ben dubrovsky, a software products designer; and meg novotny, a doctor. if i were your patient, we... you'd spent a long time with me discussing a problem. i come back the next time. >> dr. meg novotny: oh, no, no, no. you walk out to the window at the front and start checking out, and i walk out of the room and i don't know who you are. >> stahl: come on. she relies on patient charts, she told us. but there aren't any of those in ben's office, where lunch in the cafeteria can be tricky. >> ben dubrovsky: i was sitting down at lunch, having a discussion with someone about one of my projects, and the guy across the table gets up from lunch and says, "god, that's really interesting. when you have that meeting, can you invite me? thanks. see you." who is it? i don't know. >> stahl: who

like for people who suffer from a mysterious neurological condition called face blindness, or prosopagnosiadoes anybody know what that is? it is someone in your family. it is your daughter. >> i'm steve kroft. >> i'm lesley stahl. >> i'm morley safer. >> i'm bob simon. >> i'm sanjay gupta. >> i'm scott pelley. those stories tonight on "60 minutes." (in audible chatter, laughing) wow,