Survived a Rod Through His Brain & Changed Brain Science forever! Phineas Gage

today's episode of History and Hearsay, we are discussing  Phineas Gage, his traumatic brain injury and how aginst all odds, he surived and changed the world of medicine! 

►Sources:
https://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/se367/14/Readings/kean-14_phineas-gage-most-famous-patient.pdf 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage 
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1076/0964-704X(200004)9:1;1-2;FT046 
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20480430/ 
https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~jfkihlstrom/PDFs/2010s/2010/SocNeuroPhinGage_2010.pdf 
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Franz-Joseph-Gall 
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0037454 
https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/phineas-gage-unravelling-myth 
Other similar cases: https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/looking-back-blasts-past 

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