A wonderful journey through skull and brains: The travels of Mr. Gage's tamping iron |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Geriatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA;2. Department of Neurobiology & Developmental Sciences, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA;3. Geriatrics Research, Education and Clinical Center, Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System, Little Rock, AR, USA;1. Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition & Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA;2. Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA;3. Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA;4. Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC Canada;5. Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA;6. Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA;1. Young Children Department, The Geha Mental Health Center, Petach Tikva 4910002, Israel;2. Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel;3. Feinberg Child Study Center, Schneider Children''s Medical Center of Israel, Petach Tikva 4920235, Israel;4. Department of Psychology and the Gonda Brain Sciences Center, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 5290002, Israel;5. The Jesse Z and Sara Lea Shafer Institute of Endocrinology and Diabetes National Center for Childhood Diabetes; Schneider Children''s Medical Center of Israel, Petach Tikva 4920235, Israel;6. Laboratory of Molecular Endocrinology and Diabetes, Felsenstein Medical Research Center, Petach Tikva 4941942, Israel;7. Department of Communication Disorders, Sackler Faculty of Medicine,Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel;8. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry outpatient clinic, Shalvata Mental Health Center, Hod Hasharon 4510002, Israel |
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| Abstract: | Phineas Gage was injured by his tamping iron nearly 140 years ago, and only one similar case has been reported since then. In this paper, the contemporary popular and medical responses to the news of Gage's accident are summarized. An attempt is made to evaluate the contribution of Harlow's treatment of Gage as well as the successive bearings which the case was thought to have on analyses of brain function, aphasia, and frontal lobe function. |
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