The phrenologists mapped the brain in this manner.
What are bumps on a person's head?
100
This is how Phineas changed following the accident.
What is severe personality changes or anti-social behavior?
200
Liquid product of inflammation often found with infection
What are pus?
200
Location of Barnum's American Museum
What is New York?
200
What did Phineas do after the accident
Sat up, started talking and made a note in his log book.
200
The whole brainers believe that Gage's accident proves the whole brain theory for this reason.
What is believing that Gage's brain is a "whole" where if one part is injured, then another part will take over?
200
These are three different jobs Phineas probably had following his work with the railroad.
What is working at the Barnum's Museum, being a stagecoach driver in Chile, and working for a farmer/rancher?
300
a group of similar cells that perform a particular function
What is tissue?
300
Location of Phineas' mother's original home?
What is New Hampshire?
300
This is the major difference between what the medical community knew about bacteria in 1848 and what we know now.
What is not much vs. what is knowing that bacteria causes infection?
300
Localizers believed this is how the accident changed Gage?
What is Gage's personality change is explained by the tamping iron going throught the regions of benevolence and veneration?
300
Phineas Gage eventually dies from a seizure that caused his body to do this.
What is hypothermia?
400
The author and genre of Phineas Gage.
Who is John Fleischman and what is non-fiction?
400
Location of Phineas' death and specific burial site(name of cemetery).
What is Laurel Hill Cemetery in San Francisco?
400
The initial treatment Phineas received from Dr. Harlow.
What is cleaning the wound, dressing the wound, draining the wound, and resting the patient?
400
These are a few tools we have now to examine the brain.
What is an EEG and MRI?
400
The author of Phineas Gage believes he was lucky for these reasons.
What is he survived the accident, he lived an 11 additional years, he found a way to live, he saw the world, and he died with family around him?
500
The two rival schools of thought on the brain during Gage's time plus what each group believed.
Who are the "whole brainers" who believe that the brain is one interconnected mind, and the "localizers" who believe the brain is divided into specific areas that control specific thngs?
500
Location of stage coach job (city and country).
What is Valparaiso, Chile?
500
This is the who, what, when, where, why, and how of Gage's accident.
Who is Phineas Gage? What is a tamping iron entering Gage's head? When is 1848? Where is Vermont? Why did something go wrong? How does a spark flies into exposed blasting powder(=explosion)?
500
These are important doctors in Gage's life:
1) the doctor who first treated Gage,
2) the Harvard doctor that presented Gage's case; he is a "whole brainer,"
3) leader of the "localizer" community who reports of changes in Gage's personality.
Who is 1) Dr. Harlow, 2) Dr. Bigelow, 3) Dr.Sizer?
500
Three facts you learned about the brain by reading ths book.