13, 1848, at around 4:30 p.m., the time of day when the mind might start wandering, a railroad foreman named Phineas ... from fatty brain tissue. The rod’s momentum threw Gage backward, and ...

Phineas P. Gage was a construction supervisor for the ... to the breakdown of these links and about damages due to brain injury. [For the Record, 4:13 p.m. May 16: An earlier version of this ...

A newly discovered daguerreotype of Phineas Gage ... Surprisingly, Gage was unconscious only momentarily, if at all, though most of the front of the left side of his brain was destroyed.

Phineas Gage is often referred to as the "man who began neuroscience." He experienced a traumatic brain injury when an iron rod was driven through his skull, destroying much of his frontal lobe.

Stories of Phineas Gage. "He was the first case where you could say fairly definitely that injury to the brain produced some kind of change in personality," Macmillan says. And that was a big deal ...

Poor Phineas Gage. In 1848, the supervisor for the Rutland ... is not unlike modern patients who have suffered a traumatic brain injury," he said. "And it is analogous to certain forms of ...

because his case was the first to suggest a link between brain trauma and personality change. In his book An Odd Kind of Fame: Stories of Phineas Gage, the University of Melbourne’s Malcolm ...

Consider the case of Phineas ... through brain imaging. As documented in a case study published by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, Gage's doctor noted that, after his injury, he'd become ...

In 1848, 25-year-old railroad supervisor Phineas Gage was using a 3 foot ... caused to the pathways that connected regions of Gage’s brain. The result not only adds dimension to the historical ...

It's based on the curious case of Phineas Gage – a railroad ... film will raise awareness of traumatic brain injury. After a second screening of Gage at Laurlhurst Theater on Saturday at 12:45pm ...

Phineas Gage has not exactly become ... In the 19th century, Gage faced a horrifying injury when an explosive went off and forced a metal pole through his brain, all while Gage remained conscious.