Damaged connections in Phineas Gage's brain: Famous 1848 case of man who survived accident has modern parallel
Wednesday, May 16, 2012 - 20:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
In 1848, Phineas Gage survived an accident that drove an iron rod through his head. 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.