Also known as metamorphopsia for faces, demon face syndrome
Prosopometamorphopsia (PMO), also known as demon face syndrome, is a neurological disorder characterized by altered perceptions of faces. In the perception of a person with the disorder, facial features are distorted in a variety of ways including drooping, swelling, discoloration, and shifts of position.
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Prosopometamorphopsia (PMO), also known as demon face syndrome, is a neurological disorder characterized by altered perceptions of faces. In the perception of a person with the disorder, facial features are distorted in a variety of ways including drooping, swelling, discoloration, and shifts of position.
Prosopometamorphopsia is distinct from prosopagnosia, which is characterised by the inability to recognise faces.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).