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The Mind & Brain of Phineas Gage

The Morbid Museum
The Morbid Museum
Episode • Dec 12, 2022 • 49m

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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Artwork: Brittany Schall Music: "Danse Macabre" by Camille Saint-Saens, performed by Kevin MacLeod

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