What is Phineas Gage?
{{one source|date=January 2025}} [[File:Phineas Gage Cased Daguerreotype WilgusPhoto2008-12-19 EnhancedRetouched Color.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Gage holding the iron that [[impalement|impaled]] his [[skull]] in 1849]] '''Phineas P. Gage''' (July 9, 1823 &ndash; May 21, 1860) was an American railroad [[construction foreman]]. He is known for his unlikely survival of an accident in which a large iron rod was driven completely through his head, [[brain damage|destroying]] much of his brain's left [[frontal lobe]]. This caused effects on his personality and behavior over the remaining 12 years of his life.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/phineas-gage-neurosciences-most-famous-patient-11390067/|title=Phineas Gage: Neuroscience’s Most Famous Patient|publisher=[[The Smithsonian]]|access-date=July 22, 2020}}</ref> Gage was born in [[Lebanon, New Hampshire]]. He died on May 21, 1860 in the [[San Francisco Bay Area]] from [[status epilepticus]] (a form of a [[seizure]]), aged 36. ==Gallery== <gallery> File:Phineas gage - 1868 skull diagram.jpg|{{center|A [[diagram]] of Gage's skull after being impaled by the iron}} File:Phineas Gage injury - animation (frontal lobe).gif|{{center|A [[3D]] diagram of his injury}} File:Simulated Connectivity Damage of Phineas Gage 4 vanHorn PathwaysDamaged.jpg|{{center|A detailed diagram of the brain damage Gage had}} File:Gage reconstruction (Ratiu et al.).png|{{center|A simple drawing showing the process of Gage's accident and recovery}} File:Simulated Connectivity Damage of Phineas Gage SkullDisplayWarren.jpg|{{center|Gage's skull on display at [[Harvard University]]}} </gallery> phineas gage is a roaman be careful off him ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Gage, Phineas}} [[Category:1823 births]] [[Category:1860 deaths]] [[Category:Deaths from epilepsy]] [[Category:People from Vermont]] [[Category:People from New Hampshire]] {{US-bio-stub}}