A 31-year-old fisherman in Louisiana experienced a life-threatening accident when the sharp bill of a white marlin struck him ...

As the man leaned over the side of the boat to release the hook from the fish, it jumped and struck him in the mouth with its ...

The misunderstood story of Phineas Gage shows that we need a new way of understanding the experiences of brain injury ...

Phineas Gage was one of her favorite topics. If you don’t know who Phineas Gage was and about his ties to Cavendish, Google him. At family reunions, Sandy would regal her family with the interesting ...

Do our spirits live on after death? For most people, the question doesn't seem to require much soul-searching. A colossal 83 per cent of adults in the US believe that human souls exist, according ...

A vast amount of what we know about the brain has come from things going wrong. One of the most famous cases is that of Phineas Gage. He was known as a responsible, upstanding worker.

In 1848, railroad worker Phineas Gage was impaled by a 3.5-foot, 13-pound rod he was using to pack a hole with explosives. The then 25-year-old, survived an explosion, that caused a heavy iron rod ...

Phineas Gage has not exactly become a household name, but he is undeniably an important historical figure, especially in the field of neurology. In the 19th century, Gage faced a horrifying injury ...

Clare Prowse needs ideas for a “medical mystery” course for her 10 th -grade biology students and has turned to AI. As the sample curriculum it created scrolls down her screen, she gushes over its ...

Here we learn the remarkable tale of Phineas Gage who, in 1848, survived an horrendous pole-through-head incident suggested by the display.

Phineas Gage, a railroad worker, was clearing the way for a new railroad in the US state of Vermont on September 13, 1848, when an accidental explosion caused an iron bar to punch a hole in his skull.