Phineas Gage became one of the most famous medical cases in American history after a railroad explosion drove an iron rod ...

When Gage’s frontal lobes got pulped in 1848, he transformed from a clean-cut, virtuous foreman into a dirty, scary, sociopathic drifter. Or did he? You can save this article by registering for free ...

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 ...

"Here is business enough for you," Gage told the first doctor to treat him after a premature detonation on a railroad-building site turned a tamping iron into a missile. From the collection of Jack ...

In 2009, a researcher discovered a daguerreotype of Phineas Gage holding the tamping iron that almost killed him. Wikimedia Commons Add this to the titles of books you don’t want written about you: ...

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 ...

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 ...