Phineas Gage has not exactly become a household name, but he is undeniably an important historical figure, especially in the ...

CAVENDISH — A pivotal moment in the understanding of the brain will be recalled during a walking tour Sunday. Friday is the 150th anniversary of the death of Phineas Gage, whose unfortunate accident ...

- A description of the complex skills required by Phineas' stage-driving job in Chile. - Reports of Gage from several doctors, including one from Chile describing "no impairment whatever." - Most ...

Gage's ability to travel to Chile and preside over a stagecoach, Macmillan and other students of Gage argue, suggests time and labor helped restore his faculties. Still, much about Gage exists in the ...

According to witnesses Gage was using a long pointy iron bar to tamp down the explosives into one of the holes. He was momentarily distracted by workers behind him dumping a load of rock into a cart.

In 1848, a railroad worker survived an accident that drove a 13-pound iron bar through his head. The injury changed his personality, and our... Why Brain Scientists Are Still Obsessed With The Curious ...

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Were Neandertals, who were successful hunters living in Europe and the Middle East for over 200,000 years, able to plan, organize, strategize, and make decisions as well as modern humans? Some ...

The X-Files was a sci-fi horror series based on both aliens and monsters, but there were stories inspired on real events.

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