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PHINEAS GAGE

PHINEAS GAGE. Gloria Mensah, Rachelle Blash , Madison Carr, Adina Beslagic. The Story. Phineas Gage was a railroad worker On September 13 th , 1848 he was working on a railroad bed and an explosion went off with the tamping iron he was working with

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PHINEAS GAGE

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  1. PHINEAS GAGE Gloria Mensah, Rachelle Blash, Madison Carr, Adina Beslagic

  2. The Story • Phineas Gage was a railroad worker • On September 13th, 1848 he was working on a railroad bed and an explosion went off with the tamping iron he was workingwith • The iron weighed 13 pounds and penetrated his left cheek, went through his brain, and landed several yards away • He was conscious after the accident and was able to communicate with his physician, Dr. John Marytn Harlow • After being treated by Harlow for 10 weeks, Gage went home

  3. After the Accident • The tamping iron went directly through Gage’s frontal lobes which affected his personality • Damage to frontal cortex leads to a complete loss of social inhibitions, explaining the inappropriate behavior • He worked several jobs afterwards because his old employer would not take him back • He moved back in with his mother and died in 1860 from a series of seizures • Gage was the first to provide evidence that the frontal cortex is involved in personality.

  4. Personality Changes • Before the accident • Capable • Efficient • Well-balanced mind • Shrewd, smart business man • After the accident • Extremely profane • Showed little respect for those around him • Impatient and obstinate • Indecisive • Friends said he was “no longer Gage”

  5. Frontal Lobe • Controls: • Motor function • Problem solving • Spontaneity • Memory • Language • Considered our emotional control center and is home to our personality • Initiation • Judgment • Impulse controls • Social behavior • Sexual behavior

  6. Lobotomy • Lobotomy: surgical incision into the frontal lobe of the brain to severe one or more nerve tracts, a technique formerly used to treat certain mental disorders, but now is rarely performed • Lobotomies were common from 1949 to 1952 • By cutting certain nerves, lobotomies get rid of “excess emotion and stabilize a personality” • Gage’s accident was an accidental lobotomy

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