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On the 13th of September 1948 in a small town in Vermont, an accident took place that would not only change a man’s life but also allow greater studies of the brain that would change brain studies forever.

Phineas Gage, a 26 year old track construction foreman from a small town suffered a terrible accident that would kill him but not for another eleven years. (Fleischman, 2004, P1).

Gage was working with a three foot long tamping iron to set explosives on the tracks when there is an explosions that sends the tamping iron straight up, it lands on the ground about thirty feet behind Gage.

The rod had went up into Gage, entering under his left cheekbone and behind his left eye, through his brains frontal lobe and out through the middle of his head. (Fleischman, 2004, P6).

Amazingly Gage is still alive and as the other workmen run to help him he sits up and speaks, blood pours down over his face and clothes but he speaks to the men about the explosion and insists on making an entry in his works time book as the men try to help and cart him into town.

Gage gets into town and sits on a bench outside the hotel he has been living in, he waits thirty minutes to see a doctor who examines his head and is astonished that as to how he can still be alive. (Fleischman, 2004, P8).

Many Psychologists and students worldwide are still studying the case of Phineas Gage, it has been said that following the accident the normal behaviours of Gage changed and although most people did not know Gage before the accident study of his after behaviour has help further the studies of the brain.

Friends and family spoke him how he had was 'no longer Gage', the damage to his frontal lobe changed Gage's personality and charater traits. This helped experimentors understand the localisation of behaviours in our human brians. It has also allowed studies to take place that can help our understanding of different parts of the brain and how different parts control different aspects a person’s language and personality. (Lilienfeld et al, 2009, P111).



The HUMAN BRAIN is the most complicated structure in the known universe.

It weighs a mere three pounds and yet we cannot understand its incomprehensive complexity.