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.
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