Body Blindness

I need to complete the research design and study study study, but I always get stuck with some interesting and usually random detail. It´s me. I kind of love it.
I´ve read about different kind of agnosias. One of them - prosopagnosia - held my interest for a while. It is cognition, when someone´s ability to recognize faces is severely impaired. As I´ve read on this interesting website, face preception is for people with this condition similar to perception of stones for us. It´s connected with damage of one specific brain area near hippocampus which is called Fusiform face area (FFA). It is -like language centres of the brain - usually located in dominant hemisphere. There are more hypothetic functions of FFA like processing abstract information about numbers, colours, words and body.
Does some condition exist in which patient has impaired body perception?
You are asking Ola?
Yes, it does.
I have read some studies about anorexia patients discrepant perception of self-image and normal perception of non-self images. But it is not only my body. I think I have never had some extreme body dismorphia, but my processing of non-self images (non-self bodies) is somehow affected. I have difficulties with percieving my sisters, friends or my mom´s body. There are days or situations when I see everyone scary tiny and than again I see them "normal" or too big. I have also difficulties with quessing patients weight and height. Am I kind of body blind?
I haven´t found any condition described as "body blindness". It may be because perception of bodies is not so important as faces recognition.

But the story is as allways much more fantastic. Recent studies suggest, that FFA is not responsible only for face recognition. Fine distinction between well-known objects (like butterflys for butterfly experts or cells for histopathologists). Also objects that only evokes faces are registered in this centre - an classical example of pareidolia where random stimuli are percieved as something significant. Pareidolia is example of so called apophenia (forget the terms, they are not important). Apophenia is defined as "unmotivated seeing of connections" and it causes some kind of false error, false and usually paranoid interpretation of normal for most people meaningless situation. It sounds schizophrenic, but this condition is not necessarily connected with mental illnes. However some authors connect apophenia strongly with autistic disorders such as Asperger´s syndrome.
I don´t want to make it more complicated, but there are similarities between autistic and anorexic disorder. Obsessive behaviour, stereotypes, intense preoccupation with narrow subject, noticing strange details and interpreting them bit paranoid and many more.

Well. I think the poor message of this post is that brain is complicated. It is interesting to make connections and useless theories. But back to regular studying.