Review
An Odd Kind of Fame: Stories of Phineas Gage
The New England Journal of Medicine, Vol.344(4), pp.312-312
01/25/2001
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM200101253440419
Abstract
The story of Phineas Gage is one of the oldest, most intriguing, and most told tales in the history of neuroscience. The key events occurred in rural Vermont more than 150 years ago. Gage, a railroad construction worker, had an accident in which an iron bar was propelled through the front part of his head, producing a massive injury to his brain, presumably in his frontal lobes. That Gage even survived was miraculous enough; that he survived without apparent changes in higher cognitive functions, including speech, learning and memory, and intellect, was almost beyond comprehension. But Gage's fame and the . . .
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- An Odd Kind of Fame: Stories of Phineas Gage
- Creators
- Daniel Tranel
- Resource Type
- Review
- Publication Details
- The New England Journal of Medicine, Vol.344(4), pp.312-312
- DOI
- 10.1056/NEJM200101253440419
- ISSN
- 0028-4793
- eISSN
- 1533-4406
- Publisher
- Massachusetts Medical Society
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/25/2001
- Academic Unit
- Neurology; Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984002597602771
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