History and Hearsay

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

Christina Season 4 Episode 18

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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