Fay Bound-Alberti, writer and professor of modern history at King's College London, is the author of The Face: A Cultural History, which deals with the interdisciplinary meanings of the face[1]. During a five-year research project, she realized that she had been suffering from a rare condition called prosopagnosia, or face blindness, all her life[1]. Prosopagnosia is a neurological disorder in which the sufferer cannot recognize individual faces[1]. There are two medically recognized types of this disorder – a rarer form arises after overcoming a severe trauma, and the second form arises as a result of a developmental disorder[1]. The mechanism of the disorder consists in damage to the part of the brain responsible for processing information about faces, namely the occipital and temporal lobes[1]. Affected people can see faces normally, but their brains cannot remember the face, which is different from the common myth that they see blurry or unclear faces[1]. Bound-Albertia's experience is described in her book, where she describes a situation where she could not distinguish her daughter from a crowd of other toddlers in a nursery[1].