Do you remember reading about Phineas Gage’s 1848 accident, where a three and a half foot long iron rod rammed into his face? To everybody’s surprise he recovered. A construction foreman and fellow worker told how the rod entered Gage’s left cheek, traveled behind his eye, and pierced through the top of his skull. It seemed he would die, but instead Gage began to talk and walk again. Check out the story…
Gage’s personality changed radically and his story is used to show a brain’s part in who you become…. Before his accident, Gage was responsible, hard-working, and popular. The accident caused him to turn nasty, vulgar, and basically a bum. Look at this progression of Phineas Gage’s personality change at Deakin University in .
Today, "imaging" technologies--positron emission tomography or PET … and magnetic resonance imaging or MRI … show images of intact and damaged brains to describe how a healthy brain can also create a healthy personality. What do you think?
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