Phineas Gage
Localization of functions
Brain Injuries
Personality disorders
Brain damage
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Complications
Etiology
Brain
Mental health
Surgery
Patients
Juvenile literature
Biography
History
Phineas Gage was truly a man with a hole in his head. A railroad construction foreman, Phineas was blasting rock near Cavendish, Vermont, in 1848 when a thirteen-pound iron rod was shot through his brain. Miraculously, he survived another eleven years and became a textbook case in brain science. But…
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