Phineas Gage : A Gruesome But True Storyabout Brain Science
By John FleischmanPhineas 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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- Paperback
- 86 pages
- English
- 0439562414
- 9780439562416
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