Comments on: A head of his time: Phineas Gage’s horrific accident http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/5570 Feel Smart Again Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:37:07 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Wiser http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/5570/comment-page-1#comment-89982 Wiser Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:44:40 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/5570#comment-89982 Actually the original poster is correct. Read "DesCartes Error" by Neurologist Antonio R. Demasio. It states preciscely what the original poster related about Phineas Gage and this horrific accident. Actually the original poster is correct. Read “DesCartes Error” by Neurologist Antonio R. Demasio. It states preciscely what the original poster related about Phineas Gage and this horrific accident.

]]> By: Daylightrambler http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/5570/comment-page-1#comment-12104 Daylightrambler Mon, 07 May 2007 21:30:58 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/5570#comment-12104 Clink my name link for an awesome digital reconstruction of Gage's injury. Clink my name link for an awesome digital reconstruction of Gage’s injury.

]]> By: Doc http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/5570/comment-page-1#comment-12093 Doc Mon, 07 May 2007 16:08:11 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/5570#comment-12093 I have no documentation to prove this: The story is that back in the '30s a black man ran afoul of the Klan (not unusual at the time) and was shot in the skull five times with a .38 caliber handgun. He survived with no apparent personality changes. I have no documentation to prove this:

The story is that back in the ’30s a black man ran afoul of the Klan (not unusual at the time) and was shot in the skull five times with a .38 caliber handgun. He survived with no apparent personality changes.

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