Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science
Phineas Gage was truly a man with a hole in his head. A railroad construction foreman, Phineas was blasting rock near Cavendish, Vermont, in 1848 when a thirteen-pound iron rod was shot through his brain. Miraculously, he survived another eleven years and became a textbook case in brain science....
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Phineas Gage was truly a man with a hole in his head. A railroad construction foreman, Phineas was blasting rock near Cavendish, Vermont, in 1848 when a thirteen-pound iron rod was shot through his brain. Miraculously, he survived another eleven years and became a textbook case in brain science. But he was forever changed by the accident, and what happened inside his brain will tell you a lot about how your brain works and what makes us who we are.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780618494781 (0618494782)
ASIN: 0618494782
Publish date: 2004-11-01
Publisher: Sandpiper
Pages no: 96
Edition language: English
Category:
Childrens,
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
Academic,
School,
Science,
Juvenile,
Middle Grade,
Psychology,
Historical
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