In 2009, a researcher discovered a daguerreotype of Phineas Gage holding the tamping iron that almost killed him. Wikimedia Commons Add this to the titles of books you don’t want written about you: ...

Perhaps you've read about Phineas Gage, seen here with the tamping iron that went through his brain. Beware, almost everything you've read about him is myth. I have researched Gage ...

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 rail ...

The phenomenon of personality traits impacted by trauma to the brain is well-documented through history, dating to at least the late 18th century. Consider the case of Phineas Gage: a New England ...

The story of Phineas Gage illustrates some of the first medical knowledge gained on the relationship between personality and the functioning of the brain's frontal lobe. A construction foreman from ...

In 1848, a railroad worker survived an accident that drove a 13-pound iron bar through his head. The injury changed his personality, and our... Why Brain Scientists Are Still Obsessed With The Curious ...