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 ...

On Episode 3 of Stranger Things 2, Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo) bursts into class late and disrupts his science teacher’s lecture on the strange case of Phineas Gage, a man who survived an extraordinary ...

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 ...