Phineas Gage

It is believed Phineas Gage was born July 9, 1823 and died May 21, 1860. He was an American railroad construction foreman that is mostly recognized and remembered of surviving through severe brain damage. From his injury he was the first patient from whom Doctors learned the relation between personality and the function of the frontal parts of the brain. On September 13, 1848, when Cage was 25 years old he was working in a town outside of Vermont. A hole was made into a body of rock and Gage had the job to add blasting powder, fuse and sand to it then he had to compact it with a large iron rod. The power exploded and he had the iron rod inserted through his head, going through his left eye and out through the top of his head.  The accident affected a lot in Phineas life, mostly his personality and behavior changed that his friends saw him as "he is no longer Gage," he also lost his eye, The term brain localization mean that every single part of your brain has a different function some more important than others but all necessary. Brain lateralization is that the brain is divided into two parts, left and right both have different functions. The lateralization theory helps us understand our behavior, personality, creativity, and the ability to make a proper way of thinking and achieving different tasks. It took Phineas about two weeks to recover from his accident. He died twelve years after from severe convulsions. His case is so famous that his skull is in the Harvard medical museum. 

























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