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

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 Support the show