Advisory Board March 26, 2024
In November 2020, 59-year-old Victor Sharrah suddenly saw people’s faces as distorted and looking like “demons.” Later, he was diagnosed with prosopometamorphopsia (PMO), a rare neurological condition, according to a case study published in The Lancet.
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‘It’s like staring at demons’
Sharrah said the condition came out of the blue one day.
“I just woke up and was sitting on the couch watching TV when my roommate came into the room, and [looking at him] I’m like, ‘What am I seeing?'” When his girlfriend walked in, her face looked the same.
According to Sharrah, the faces he would see had their ears, noses, and mouths stretched back with deep grooves in their foreheads, cheeks,...
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