Phineas Gage

Phineas Gage

male, deceased (1860)
Personality psychology, Neurotrauma, frontal lobe, personal, neuroscience, social
Phineas P. Gage (1823 - May 21, 1860) was a railroad construction foreman who suffered a traumatic brain injury when a tamping iron accidentally...

Michael Hill

male
skull, knife, Neurotrauma, brain stem, brain injuries, stabbing survivor
Michael Hill is notable for having survived an attack on April 25, 1998, when an anonymous person brutally stabbed him in the skull. Hill survived...

Zasetsky

male
Psychologist, occipital, A. R. Luria, parietal lobe, occipital lobe, brain injuries…Neurotrauma
Zasetsky is the pseudonym of a patient who was treated by Russian psychologist Alexander Luria. Zasetsky suffered a severe brain injury, losing his...

Kookal Ramunni Krishnan

male, deceased (1999)
Doctor, Indian, university of liverpool, spinal cord injury, kerala, spinal cord…Neurotrauma
Kookal Ramunni Krishnan (KR Krishnan) (1929 - 1999) born in a Nair family in Kerala, was an Indian physician. He was former director of Southport...
Karin Swartz

Karin Swartz

female
University of Wisconsin, congress, cedars-sinai medical center, neurosurgery, m.d., medical center…National Neurotrauma Society
Karin Swartz , M.D. Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery Dr. Swartz graduated from Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine in Chicago and...
Philip J. Horner

Philip J. Horner

male
University of Washington, PhD, Ohio State University, salk institute, surgery, stroke…National Neurotrauma Society
Dr. Horner's primary interests are in the biology of stem cells and neural regeneration. During his post-doctoral research he discovered that the...

Edward D. Hall

male
pi, medicine, pharmacology, cord, stroke, Ph.D.…National Neurotrauma Society
Dr. Hall's laboratory is focused upon the further understanding of the secondary injury process that follows mechanical trauma to the brain or...

Pak H. Chan

University of California, award, chairman, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Stanford University School of Medicine, Ph.D.…National Neurotrauma Society, President of the National Neurotrauma Society
Pak H. Chan , Ph.D., is a tenured Professor of Neurosurgery, Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, a faculty member of the Program in...

Michael J. Whalen

male
MD, PhD, scientist, harvard medical school, grant, Massachusetts General Hospital…National Neurotrauma Society
Dr. Whalen is principal investigator of a National Institutes of Health funded research study to understand the mechanisms that initiate cell death...