Survived a Rod Through His Brain & Changed Brain Science forever! Phineas Gage

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In today's episode of History and Hearsay, we are discussing Phineas Gage, his traumatic brain injury and how against all odds, he survived and changed the world of medicine!
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
0:41 - FREE way to support the channel
1:48 - Phineas Gage
3:27 - The Accident
7:40 - Medical Treatment
13:44 - Getting back to work
15:48 - Personality Changes
18:01 - Studying how the brain works
21:20 - Dr. Harlow’s reports
23:11 - Failing Health
25:04 - Medical Community
28:26 - Final Thoughts

â–ºSources:
https://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/se367/14/Readings/kean-14_phineas-gage-most-famous-patient.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1076/0964-704X(200004)9:1;1-2;FT046
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20480430/
https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~jfkihlstrom/PDFs/2010s/2010/SocNeuroPhinGage_2010.pdf
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Franz-Joseph-Gall
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0037454
https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/phineas-gage-unravelling-myth
Other similar cases: https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/looking-back-blasts-past

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