Table 3.

Treatment approaches in developmental prosopagnosia.

Source	Patient/N	Compensatory/ remedial/ other	Duration of Treatment	Treatment	Outcome	Improvements
Brunsdon et al., 2006	A.L. 8-year-old male	Compensatory	~1 month	Using defining facial characteristics to learn faces of familiar people	Improvement on trained faces with and without hair and from different viewpoints, reported real-life improvements	Yes without generalization
Schmalzl et al., 2008	K. 4-year-old female	Compensatory	9 sessions over a month	Using defining facial characteristics to learn faces of familiar people	Immediately post-training improvement on front view recognition and more normal scan paths, 4 weeks after training also improved at recognition of faces from different viewpoints	Yes without generalization
DeGutis et al., 2007	M.Z. 48-year-old female	Remedial	~14 months	Training to integrate spacing information from the mouth and eye regions	Significant improvement on face perception and recognition, self-reported improvements, more face-selective N170 and enhanced fMRI connectivity with face-selective regions	Yes with generalization
Dalrymple et al., 2012	T.M. 12-year-old male	Remedial	47 sessions over 10 months	Practice on one face (mother's) with feedback	No significant improvements	No
DeGutis et al., 2014	N = 24	Remedial	15 sessions over 3 weeks	Training to integrate spacing information from the mouth and eye regions	Improvement on face perception, daily face recognition, and increased holistic processing in better trainees, no improvement of faces from varying viewpoints	Yes with generalization
Bate et al., 2014	N = 10	Other	2 sessions over 14–25 days	24 IU of intranasal oxytocin and placebo spray	Improvements on facial memory and face matching task for DPs but not controls.	Yes with generalization

Generalization: Evidence of improvements in processing novel face stimuli that are different from the treatment intervention itself.