The Accident
In 1848, Phineas Gage was injured while working on this type of project.
What is railroad construction?
Keeps your automatic functions going, like breathing and heartbeat.
What is the brain stem?
The rod destroyed much of this lobe, associated with personality and decision-making.
What is the frontal lobe?
After the accident, Gage was treated by this doctor, who documented his recovery.
Who is Dr. John Harlow?
Gage's skull and tamping iron are displayed at this famous university's medical museum.
What is Harvard (the Warren Anatomical Museum)?
This tool blasted through Gage's skull, entering through his cheek and exiting the top of his head.
What is a tamping iron?
This lobe helps you understand and react to what you are seeing.
What is the occipital lobe?
Each neuron can have anywhere from how many synapses.
What is from 1,000 to 6,000 synapses?
Gage survived the accident but later suffered from these neurological episodes that contributed to his death.
What are epileptic seizures?
His case is often citied in psychology textbooks as evidence for the connection between brain injury and this.
What is personality change?
The accident occurred in this U.S. State.
What is Vermont?
This lobe helps you process sensory information, particularly your sense of touch.
What is the parietal lobe?
On the bottom of the cortex: which coordinates memory, sensation, and emotion.
What is the limbic system?
After losing his railroad job, Gage worked for several years as this type of driver in Chile.
What is a stagecoach driver?
The first anatomical proof of Broca's and Wernicke's areas.
What is localization?
The explosion happened while Gage was preparing this substance used for blasting rock.
What is gun powder?
Center for coordination of movement and balance.
What is the Cerebellum?
Gage's case became an early example of this field that studies brain-behavior relationships.
What is neuroscience?
Theories replaced by a new experimental brain science.
What are the Localizers and Whole Brainers?
Gage's case helped inspire early theories about this "executive" function of the brain.
What is decision-making or executive control?
Sometimes called a concussion.
What is a closed brain injury?
The largest part of the cerebral cortex?
What is the frontal lobe?
Without this organ you would not be human.
What is the cerebral cortex?
Gage died in 1860 in this U.S. state.
What is California?
Plots amazing patterns of electrical activity that match specific areas of the brain with specific functions.
What is EEG?