About this episode
In 1848, railroad construction foreman Phineas Gage survived a traumatic brain event that defied medical certainty, when a metal rod impaled his skull. Gage's life was never the same, and the accounts of his personality changes after the accident accelerated understanding of the function of the brain and its elasticity.“Meet” Phineas Gage at the Saint Albans Museum | Local News | samessenger.comNotable Warren Anatomical Museum Holdings | Countway LibrarySkull of Phineas Gage | NIH 3D Print ExchangeThe Case of Phineas Gage (1823 - 1860) · Beyond the Bone Box · OnView: Digital Collections & ExhibitsThe Phineas Gage information page : The University of Akron, OhioA Visit With Phineas Gage And His Legendary SkullA New View of Phineas Gage The daguerreotype of Phineas Gage connects viewers to the man behind the storyPhineas Gage neuroscience case: True story of famous frontal lobe patient is better than textbook accounts.Follow us on IG: @themorbidmuseum Email us at themorbidmuseum@gmail.comArtwork: Brittany Schall Music: "Danse Macabre" by Camille Saint-Saens, performed by Kevin MacLeod2022 All Rights Reserved
