Phineas Gage

By John Fleischman John Fleischman

Subjects: Juvenile literature, Biography, Patients, Brain damage, patients, Complications, Brain damage, Reading Level-Grade 9, Personality Disorders, Personality disorders, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 6, Mental health, Brain Injuries, Brain Damage, Reading Level-Grade 10, Etiology

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)