Phineas Gage has not exactly become a household name, but he is undeniably an important historical figure, especially in the ...

Phineas Gage was the foreman of a railway construction crew working just outside Cavendish, Vermont. He was the company's most capable foreman with a well balanced mind and shrewd business sense. Gage ...

A well-documented example of brain damage is of Phineas Gage, who in 1848 had a serious accident whilst laying railway tracks and an iron rod went through his skull. Phineas survived the accident ...

An odd kind of fame. Stories of Phineas Gage. Edited by malcolm macmillan (Pp 552, £24.95). Published by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, 2000. ISBN 0 262 13363 6. A brief description of ...

When he arrived, he found the man, Phineas Gage, sitting in a chair outside the hotel. Gage had a large hole in his cheek and another in the top of his head. ‘Doctor,’ Gage said to Williams, ‘here is ...

I’m sure other members will challenge me—harshly on Twitter, more gently on Facebook. Phineas Gage is arguably the most famous case study in the history of neuroscience. Gage was a railroad worker who ...

The 17-foot tall sculpture is now on display at the Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence, Italy. Twenty-five-year-old Phineas Gage is impaled by a tamping iron while working on a railroad in Vermont.

A detailed and fascinating look at the 1848 case of a man who lived 11 years after a large iron rod was shot through his brain. Each year the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) ...