Many kids are suffering from visual processing disorder, and it’s keeping a countless number of undiagnosed children from being able to read.

What happens when faces look surreal or misshapen? Discover prosopometamorphopsia, the rare disorder that distorts how we see faces.

The first condition is called visual processing disorder or VPD. It's a neurological condition that makes it difficult for the brain to interpret what it sees.

A woman with a rare neurological disorder experiences a bizarre visual distortion that makes human faces appear dragon-like. Doctors explain that the condition—known as prosopometamorphopsia—is linked ...

"So it may be the other disorders that conspire to make reading more difficult from a visual-processing standpoint," Stagg said.

Individuals battling major depressive episodes were found to have abnormal visual processing, according to a Finnish study suggesting altered perception involves changes in the cerebral cortex.

Some researchers believe dyslexia is a visual processing disorder at its core because a brain pathway involved in processing motion is also altered in dyslexia. Still, a debate rages over whether ...

Helena has four learning disabilities—a visual processing disorder, a working memory disorder, dyscalculia, and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder—that stem from her premature birth at ...