Talk:Prosopagnosis

Merge with prosopagnosia

I notice that someone added a tag suggesting that prosopagnosis and prosopagnosia be merged. I have three comments:

1. Content: A quick look at the prosopagnosis page shows that it is a mess. I am not sure that it contains any useful information that would warrant a "merge." I'd suggest that a redirect would be more in order.
2. Neologism: Prosopagnosis is a neologism that, in my training, I have never heard. Based on my experience, the word would seem to refer to the process of face recognition, but deficits in face recognition.
3. Notability: From a quick google search, prosopagnosis turns up only 183 hits, and for example, the first one correctly refers to prosopagnosia, and then uses this neologism to refer to deficits much more broadly. A pubmed search turns up no hits at all for prosopagnosis (consistent with my professional experience of never having heard the term) and 410 for prosopagnosia.

On the basis of these factors, I suggest that the prosopagnosis page be turned into a re-direct. I've also copied this to the prosopagnosia talk page. Edhubbard 14:49, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

The term prosopagnosis is not used once in the medical literature archived in PubMed. I agree this article be deleted or turned into a redirect as suggested as it adds nothing to the article under the correct name of prosopagnosia. - Vaughan 16:02, 5 November 2006 (UTC)