It took an explosion and 13 pounds of iron to usher in the modern era of neuroscience. In 1848, a 25-year-old railroad worker named Phineas Gage was blowing up rocks to clear the way for a new rail ...

The story of Phineas Gage illustrates some of the first medical knowledge gained on the relationship between personality and the functioning of the brain's frontal lobe. A construction foreman from ...

"The Curious Case of Phineas Gage" by Nick Ryan is a wildly entertaining, multi-media theater piece that is currently "in residence" at Syracuse's Red House Arts Center. Vincent J. Cardinal directs.

2 FOOSBALL to Make World Premiere at Arts on Site in New York THE CURIOUS CASE OF PHINEAS GAGE is inspired by the life and times of Phineas Gage, one of the most famous cases of traumatic brain injury ...

In 1848, a railroad worker survived an accident that drove a 13-pound iron bar through his head. The injury changed his personality, and our... Why Brain Scientists Are Still Obsessed With The Curious ...

Listen • 3:55 20170521_wesun_why_brain_scientists_are_still_obsessed_with_the_curious_case_of_phineas_gage.mp3 It took an explosion and 13 pounds of iron to usher ...

Cabinet-card portrait of brain-injury survivor Phineas Gage (1823–1860), shown holding the tamping iron that injured him. (Wikimedia) It took an explosion and 13 pounds of iron to usher in the modern ...

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