Comments on: Phineas Gage’s Brain Injury

By: JarvisLoop

JarvisLoop — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 22:05:44 +0000

And that I have returned. I also saw a blurb about this topic in “This Day in History.”

By: JarvisLoop

JarvisLoop — Sat, 22 Sep 2018 15:41:19 +0000

Just want to leave notice that I was here and that I read the article.

By: Relic

Relic — Fri, 15 Dec 2017 16:33:16 +0000

“Despite all my rage I’m still just Phineas Gage”

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 21:44:18 +0000

I was always surprised that as famous as Phineas was, there were no known photos of him. Which is why I was even more surprised when I found the first one. Which led to finding others, like the one above, and to many new documents related to his incredible story. Check out the January 2010 issue of Smithsonian Magazine.

By: Rick F.

Rick F. — Sat, 20 Jun 2015 02:45:56 +0000

Yes a tumor was located via a MRI in my left frontal lobe and was mostly removed via brain surgery the Dr. who performed the brain surgery to remove the non-cancerous tumor stated to my family and not to me this information. The only thing he told me in my 5 min. brief consultation visit before the surgery was that I had a tumor and it had to be removed via surgery ASAP. The only thing said to me after that was right before I was about to be put to sleep for the operation. The Doctor stated,’I won’t lie to you sir but this operation may affect your memory. Next thing I knew I was waking up in recovery and the first thought I had was what he told me before the surgery but I was afraid in those few seconds before the operation was not being able to remember my childhood or my son’s childhood while I practically raised him since I was the young age of 20 and then my son was a senior in High school. The strange thing was I could remember everything in my past but now in greater detail and more that I could not remember before the surgery. I thought the operation had actually improved my memory. I know now that is not medically or scientifically possible but is the first sign of short term memory disorder. This true story occured in the year 1848 so you would think a neurologist and neurosurgeon would have explained to me about all the possible side affects of having brain surgery in this area or more advanced discovery’s and information would be available to the public. I went over two years not understanding what I was going through and thinking I would improve until I finally got in touch with a great non-profit organization called the American Brain Tumor association and they were great and explained everything I was experiencing to me.

By: violentjallday

violentjallday — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 00:28:10 +0000

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

violentjallday — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 00:23:07 +0000

yall stfu i know more about phineas than all yall bitches

By: CountriKitten

CountriKitten — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 20:56:52 +0000

[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

Lord_Lothar — Sat, 26 May 2007 01:30:30 +0000

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

calista — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:52:42 +0000

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