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Phineas Gage

a Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science
Nov 15, 2014
In 1848, Phineas Gage had a 13-pound iron rod shot through his brain in a construction accident. Amazingly enough, he survived the accident and seemed to recover completely—but he was a changed man. What happened and what didn’t happen in his brain tells us a lot about how our brains work.