Comments on: Phineas Gage’s Brain Injury http://www.damninteresting.com/phineas-gages-brain-injury A collection of Damn Interesting things Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:41:34 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: violentjallday http://www.damninteresting.com/phineas-gages-brain-injury#comment-20834 violentjallday Sat, 05 Apr 2008 00:28:10 +0000 http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=231#comment-20834 u aint related to him and tink u stupid [quote]a pirates life 4 me said: "i am related 2 phineas gage and i am not kidding….hes my great great great great great great great great great uncle…….my mom is a gage but my dad isnt obviously so yeah………i think its amazing that he lived 8 more years"[/quote] sike! u aint related to him and tink u stupid

[quote]a pirates life 4 me said: “i am related 2 phineas gage and i am not kidding….hes my great great great great great great great great great uncle…….my mom is a gage but my dad isnt obviously so yeah………i think its amazing that he lived 8 more years”[/quote]
sike!

]]> By: violentjallday http://www.damninteresting.com/phineas-gages-brain-injury#comment-20833 violentjallday Sat, 05 Apr 2008 00:23:07 +0000 http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=231#comment-20833 yall stfu i know more about phineas than all yall bitches yall stfu i know more about phineas than all yall bitches

]]> By: CountriKitten http://www.damninteresting.com/phineas-gages-brain-injury#comment-19075 CountriKitten Thu, 20 Dec 2007 20:56:52 +0000 http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=231#comment-19075 [quote]Tink said: HarleyHetz, I also seem to remember a story just this past year on Yahoo! news about a guy who went to the hospital last year complaining of a horrid headache…come to find out he had 12 sheetrock nails in his head from a power gun. It seems that he was trying to commit suicide But didn't feel the nails pierce his skull, and thought the gun was broke or something,so he dropped that plan and just went on about his business, till the headache kicked in about a week later. Ha!"[/quote] He was actually high on meth when he was playing pin-cushion with himself & a nailgun. If you look up articles online about the incident, they are all published in march or april, and often they make reference to the man being "suicidal & high on meth last year" so it was at least 3 or 4 months before he sought treatment. [quote]Tink said: HarleyHetz, I also seem to remember a story just this past year on Yahoo! news about a guy who went to the hospital last year complaining of a horrid headache…come to find out he had 12 sheetrock nails in his head from a power gun. It seems that he was trying to commit suicide But didn’t feel the nails pierce his skull, and thought the gun was broke or something,so he dropped that plan and just went on about his business, till the headache kicked in about a week later. Ha!”[/quote]
He was actually high on meth when he was playing pin-cushion with himself & a nailgun. If you look up articles online about the incident, they are all published in march or april, and often they make reference to the man being “suicidal & high on meth last year” so it was at least 3 or 4 months before he sought treatment.

]]> By: Lord_Lothar http://www.damninteresting.com/phineas-gages-brain-injury#comment-15231 Lord_Lothar Sat, 26 May 2007 01:30:30 +0000 http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=231#comment-15231 <p>Yeah, we examined this case in several philosophy classes in college. The funny thing was that one of my classmates in several of these classes was a direct descendant of Phineas Gage. Talk about your small world, eh? And that, dear friends, is my claim to fame.</p> Yeah, we examined this case in several philosophy classes in college. The funny thing was that one of my classmates in several of these classes was a direct descendant of Phineas Gage. Talk about your small world, eh? And that, dear friends, is my claim to fame.

]]> By: calista http://www.damninteresting.com/phineas-gages-brain-injury#comment-13473 calista Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:52:42 +0000 http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=231#comment-13473 <p><span class='quote'>circumstance said: "We watched a video about Gage in seventh grade. As a direct result, nine years later, I am finishing up a degree in psychology. DI stuff."</span></p><p> hey, i was just wondering if you could tell me please the exact title and year of the movie...i need the video really desperatly for a huge paper i am writing about phineas gage, so i hope to hear soon from you, calista</p> circumstance said: “We watched a video about Gage in seventh grade. As a direct result, nine years later, I am finishing up a degree in psychology. DI stuff.”

hey, i was just wondering if you could tell me please the exact title and year of the movie…i need the video really desperatly for a huge paper i am writing about phineas gage,
so i hope to hear soon from you,
calista

]]> By: a pirates life 4 me http://www.damninteresting.com/phineas-gages-brain-injury#comment-11748 a pirates life 4 me Thu, 11 Jan 2007 00:31:19 +0000 http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=231#comment-11748 <p>im so bored</p> im so bored

]]> By: a pirates life 4 me http://www.damninteresting.com/phineas-gages-brain-injury#comment-11747 a pirates life 4 me Thu, 11 Jan 2007 00:30:14 +0000 http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=231#comment-11747 <p>i am related 2 phineas gage and i am not kidding....hes my great great great great great great great great great uncle.......my mom is a gage but my dad isnt obviously so yeah.........i think its amazing that he lived 8 more years </p> i am related 2 phineas gage and i am not kidding….hes my great great great great great great great great great uncle…….my mom is a gage but my dad isnt obviously so yeah………i think its amazing that he lived 8 more years

]]> By: Tink http://www.damninteresting.com/phineas-gages-brain-injury#comment-9132 Tink Thu, 05 Oct 2006 08:40:54 +0000 http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=231#comment-9132 <p><span class='quote'>Drakvil said: "I would imagine that the discrepancy is caused by the difference in tissue types… orc_jr's comment about the exit wound being larger than entrance is for soft tissues, like the torso or abdomen (or eggs and apples), while the shot with JFK was to the skull for entrance - bone makes a very stiff tissue and reacts differently, and the energy of the impact was conducted to the softer tissues beneath over a greater area. This would be akin to a meteor crater on the moon. Since the the velocity of the round is signifigantly different after is has penetrated that much of the head, the damage on the way out has changed. IMHO if the round was coming from the opposite end of the same trajectory, the wounds would look fairly similar."</span></p><p> Thank you, that makes sense. :) Dottie1985 Says: "...This reminds me of the story that I seen on a health special a few years ago where a pregnant women fell over the railing of her upstairs to the downs stairs and landed on a microphone stand…that went straight through her abdomen! Now, you would of thought that this would of definately killed the baby and possibly the mother. It's just crazy how injuries happen like this..but they happen the right way…like the stand going through a certain spot that doesn't hit the baby or cause any long term affect to the mother. Definately DI!" I've seen this story also, maybe on one of those touched by angels or miricle shows.Yes it was truly amazing. HarleyHetz, I also seem to remember a story just this past year on Yahoo! news about a guy who went to the hospital last year complaining of a horrid headache...come to find out he had 12 sheetrock nails in his head from a power gun. It seems that he was trying to commit suicide But didn't feel the nails pierce his skull, and thought the gun was broke or something,so he dropped that plan and just went on about his business, till the headache kicked in about a week later. Ha!</p> Drakvil said: “I would imagine that the discrepancy is caused by the difference in tissue types… orc_jr’s comment about the exit wound being larger than entrance is for soft tissues, like the torso or abdomen (or eggs and apples), while the shot with JFK was to the skull for entrance – bone makes a very stiff tissue and reacts differently, and the energy of the impact was conducted to the softer tissues beneath over a greater area. This would be akin to a meteor crater on the moon. Since the the velocity of the round is signifigantly different after is has penetrated that much of the head, the damage on the way out has changed. IMHO if the round was coming from the opposite end of the same trajectory, the wounds would look fairly similar.”

Thank you, that makes sense. :)

Dottie1985 Says: “…This reminds me of the story that I seen on a health special a few years ago where a pregnant women fell over the railing of her upstairs to the downs stairs and landed on a microphone stand…that went straight through her abdomen! Now, you would of thought that this would of definately killed the baby and possibly the mother. It’s just crazy how injuries happen like this..but they happen the right way…like the stand going through a certain spot that doesn’t hit the baby or cause any long term affect to the mother. Definately DI!”

I’ve seen this story also, maybe on one of those touched by angels or miricle shows.Yes it was truly amazing.

HarleyHetz, I also seem to remember a story just this past year on Yahoo! news about a guy who went to the hospital last year complaining of a horrid headache…come to find out he had 12 sheetrock nails in his head from a power gun. It seems that he was trying to commit suicide But didn’t feel the nails pierce his skull, and thought the gun was broke or something,so he dropped that plan and just went on about his business, till the headache kicked in about a week later. Ha!

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