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Survived a Rod Through His Brain & Changed Brain Science forever! Phineas Gage
In today's episode of History and Hearsay, we are discussing Phineas Gage, his traumatic brain injury and how against all odds, he survived and changed the world of medicine!
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
0:41 - FREE way to support the channel
1:48 - Phineas Gage
3:27 - The Accident
7:40 - Medical Treatment
13:44 - Getting back to work
15:48 - Personality Changes
18:01 - Studying how the brain works
21:20 - Dr. Harlow’s reports
23:11 - Failing Health
25:04 - Medical Community
28:26 - Final Thoughts
►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
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