Researchers Map Damaged Connections in Phineas Gage's Brain

In 1848, Phineas Gage survived an accident that drove an iron rod through his head. UCLA researchers, for the first time, used images of Gage's skull combined with modern-day brain images to suggest there was extensive damage to the white matter "pathways" that connected various regions of his brain.

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