Phineas Gage
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Phineas Gage
Phineas P. Gage
Phineas Gage Cased Daguerreotype WilgusPhoto2008-12-19 Unretouched Color.jpg
[Fig. 2]:
The first identified (2009) portrait of Gage, here with his "constant companion for the remainder of his life"—​his inscribed tamping iron​[A]
Born July 9, 1823 (date uncertain)
Grafton County, New Hampshire
Died May 21, 1860 (aged 36)
In or near San Francisco[C]
Cause of death Status epilepticus
Resting place
Warren Anatomical Museum, Boston (skull)
Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, California (other remains)
Residence New England, Chile, California
Occupation Railroad construction foreman, blaster, stagecoach driver
Known for Personality change after brain injury
Home town Lebanon, New Hampshire
Spouse(s) None
Children None[7]:319,327
Phineas P. Gage (1823–1860) was an American railroad construction foreman remembered for his improbable[D] survival of an accident in which a large iron rod was driven completely through his head, destroying much of his brain's left frontal lobe, and for that injury's reported effects on his personality and behavior over the next twelve years—effects so profound that (for a time at least) friends saw him as "no longer Gage."
[Fig. 1]: The "abrupt and intrusive visitor"​[D][E]
Long known as "the American Crowbar Case"—​once termed "the case which more than all others is calculated to excite our wonder, impair the value of prognosis, and even to subvert our physiological doctrines"[34]—​Phineas Gage influenced nineteenth-century discussion about the mind and brain, particularly debate on cerebral localization, and was perhaps the first case to suggest that damage to specific parts of the brain might affect personality.​[7]:ch7-9[16]
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