Listen • 3:55 20170521_wesun_why_brain_scientists_are_still_obsessed_with_the_curious_case_of_phineas_gage.mp3 It took an explosion and 13 pounds of iron to usher ...

In 1848, a railroad worker survived an accident that drove a 13-pound iron bar through his head. The injury changed his personality, and our... Why Brain Scientists Are Still Obsessed With The Curious ...

It took an explosion and 13 pounds of iron to usher in the modern era of neuroscience. In 1848, a 25-year-old railroad worker named Phineas Gage was blowing up rocks to clear the way for a new rail ...

Cabinet-card portrait of brain-injury survivor Phineas Gage (1823–1860), shown holding the tamping iron that injured him. (Wikimedia) It took an explosion and 13 pounds of iron to usher in the modern ...