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Phineas P. Gage (1823–1860) was an American railroad construction foreman remembered for his improbable: 19 survival of an accident in which a large iron rod was driven completely through his head, destroying much of his brain's left frontal lobe, and for that injury's reported effects on his personality and behavior over the remaining 12 years of his life—effects sufficiently ...
English: Phrenological diagram cropped to show "organs" at top and front of head, with inset of original and added arrows indicating areas supposed by 19th-Century phrenologists to have been damaged in the case of Phineas Gage
Phineas Gage Skull of Phineas Gage. The Warren Anatomical Museum, housed within Harvard Medical School's Countway Library of Medicine, was founded in 1847 by Harvard professor John Collins Warren, [1] whose personal collection of 160 [2] unusual and instructive anatomical and pathological specimens now forms the nucleus of the museum's 15,000-item collection. [3]
John Martyn Harlow (1819–1907) was an American physician primarily remembered for his attendance on brain-injury survivor Phineas Gage, and for his published reports on Gage's accident and subsequent history. Boston Herald, May 20, 1907. Harlow was born in Whitehall, New York on November 25, 1819 to Ransom and Annis Martyn Harlow. [1]
[8] [page needed] It may also be crucial to understanding traumatic brain injuries (as in the case of Phineas Gage) [9] and improving brain injury treatment. [10] [11] Following a series of meetings, the International Consortium for Brain Mapping (ICBM) evolved. [12] [page needed] The ultimate goal is to develop flexible computational brain ...
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