Phineas Gage: The Man Who Took a Tamping Iron to the Head and Lived to Tell the Tale (Sort Of)
Phineas Gage Phineas Gage, the man who turned a workplace accident into a neuroscience legend, is the poster child for “mind over matter”—or in his case, “matter through the mind.” In 1848, a tamping iron shot through his skull during a railroad construction mishap, and instead of becoming a tragic… Read More »Phineas Gage: The Man Who Took a Tamping Iron to the Head and Lived to Tell the Tale (Sort Of)