Title: Phineas Gage
First published: 2002
Description: Phineas 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.(description taken from book page on Amazon)
Subjects: Mental health, Personality Disorders, Brain damage, Etiology, Patients, Complications, Brain Injuries, Biography, Juvenile literature, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 6, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 10, Brain damage, patients, Penetrating Head Injuries, Surgery, History, Brain, Localization of functions, Psychosurgery