The tamping rod that blew through Phineas Gage’s brain 163 years ago damaged only a small portion of his brain, but it disrupted a much larger proportion of his neural connections, UCLA ...

Gage's skull was impaled by an iron rod. He survived, but his personality changed. A new virtual recreation shows how neural connections were damaged, in ways similar to modern brain disorders.

In 1848, Phineas Gage survived an accident that drove an iron rod through his head. Researchers, for the first time, used images of Gage’s skull combined with modern-day brain images to suggest ...

The Curious Case of Phineas Gage's Brain : Shots - Health News In 1848, a railroad worker survived an accident that drove a 13-pound iron bar through his head. The injury changed his personality ...

Fact checked by Emily Swaim 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 ...

White matter: a 3D scan of Phineas Gage's injury In 1848, 25-year-old railroad supervisor Phineas Gage was using a 3 foot 7 inch iron rod to pack blasting powder into a rock when he triggered an ...

An accident with a tamping iron made Phineas Gage history's most famous brain-injury survivor. Skip to main content. Search Shop Newsletters Renew Give a Gift Subscribe. i Subscribe Give a Gift Renew.

Cabinet-card portrait of brain-injury survivor Phineas Gage (1823–1860), shown holding the tamping iron that injured him. It took an explosion and 13 pounds of iron to usher in the modern era of ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. A newly discovered daguerreotype of Phineas Gage, the only image of ...

Cabinet-card portrait of brain-injury survivor Phineas Gage (1823–1860), shown holding the tamping iron that injured him. It took an explosion and 13 pounds of iron to usher in the modern era of ...

It took an explosion and 13 pounds of iron to usher in the modern era of neuroscience. In 1848, a 25-year-old railroad worker named Phineas Gage was blowing up rocks to clear the way for a new ...