29: My Friend Spikey [Phineas Gage]
In 1848, Phineas Gage survived an unfortunate railroad accident that later informed science and medicine’s understanding of how the prefrontal cortex works. Supporting character: Spikey the tamping iron
Key Words
anterior association area, executive function, judgement, language production, motor planning, neocortex, prefrontal cortex
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References and Resources
“No longer Gage”: an iron bar through the head: Early observations of personality change after injury to the prefrontal cortex, BMJ, 1998
How Phineas Gage's Freak Accident Changed Brain Science, WPR, 2020
Discovery of Gage’s daguerreotype: Phineas Gage: Neuroscience's Most Famous Patient, Smithsonian Magazine, 2010
Textbook: Principles of Neural Science, Kandel, Schwartz, and Jessell, 4th Edition
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