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Gage's peers describe him as having
undergone profound personality changes because of his injury.
He is often reported as having permanently lost his inhibitions. Some reports state that he became violent.
Gage went onto work as a stagecoach driver then as a farm hand in Santa Clara .Gage however went onto suffer convulsions of
increasing severity, and consequently died in 1860, at the age of 36.
The Iron bar was
43 inches long,
1.25 inches in
diameter and weighed
13.25 pounds
Replica model of Gage’s skull using neuroimaging techniques
Measurements from Gage’s skull determined the projected placement of the entry and exit point of the tamping iron!
An accident with a tamping iron made
Phineas Gage history’s most famous
brain-injury survivor!
Who Is
PHINEAS gage?
Reports suggest
friends of Gage said he was "No longer Gage". The railroad company refused to take the once capable Gage back stating "he is not stable, irreverent and indulging at times in the grossest profanity".
The left frontal lobe was damaged by the tamping iron. This area is responsible for emotional processing and rational decision-making which was said to be evidenced in Gage's behavioural changes.
HOW DID THIS AFFECT GAGE?
In 1848, 25 year old Gage was the foreman working on a railroad bed in Cavendish, Vermont. On September 13, as he was using a tamping iron to pack explosive powder into a hole, the powder detonated. The tamping iron shot up and penetrated Gage’s left cheek, ripped into his brain and exited through his skull.
