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The cynic in me is thinking, what are the chances that this patient is faking it? Seems odd that just for this one person the effect wouldn't happen on screens, while it does for everyone else with this condition.
But I can push this thought aside. This is interesting, and I've never heard of this condition before.
If you take psychedelics something similar can happen, and it's way less intense with faces on screens. Maybe it has to do with depth perception?
I can think up a few plausible explanation. The easiest of which for me is that with a static picture of a face - especially if it's not Actual Size™ - your brain might be aware that it's not an actual face. Or more accurately, the visual system is not convinced that it's a real face.
At the end of the day though, I'm no brain scientist and I've got layman's knowledge about the subject at best, so I'm happy to leave it to the professionals and trust that the scientists verified it in one way or another.