Phineas P. Gage (1823 - May 21, 1860) was a railroad construction foreman who suffered a traumatic brain injury when a tamping iron accidentally passed through his skull, damaging the frontal lobes of his brain. This injury is supposed to have negatively affected his emotional, social and personal traits-leaving him in a temperamental and unsociable state, so much so that his friends said he was "no longer Gage". At the time of its report to the scientific community, … Wikipedia
Phineas Gage is probably the most famous patient to have survived severe damage to the brain. He is also the first patient from whom we learned something about the relation between personality and the function of the front parts of the brain. www.deakin.edu.au/hbs/GAGEPAGE/PgLobot.htm
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The 'subject', Phineas Gage, is a legend in the history of brain injury: he survived a 3-foot rod blown into his head from a construction blast in 1848. libweb.uoregon.edu/guides/architecture/oregon/xphineasgag...
Phineas P. Gage (1823 - May 21, 1860) was a railroad construction worker who suffered an unusual kind of traumatic brain injury which inflicted severe damage to parts of the frontal lobes of his brain during a work accident. psychology.wikia.com/wiki/Phineas_Gage
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 a search.barnesandnoble.com/Phineas-Gage/John-Fleischman/e/...
