Frontal Lobe Disorders
The Man, the Myth, the Legend - Phineas Gage himself
The tamping iron and his skull, for scale.
Not the most accurate rendition of his likeness IMHO.
(not) Actual footage of Phineas Gage, with one eye and a damaged frontal lobe navigating a precarious pass in his Chilean stagecoach.
The frontal lobe
EP. 04
Frontal Lobe Disorders
A darkly fascinating dive into what happens when the brain’s “control center” goes off-script. In this podcast, we explore frontal lobe disorders through some of the strangest and most unsettling cases in neuroscience—from Phineas Gage and his personality-altering injury, to bizarre clinical stories where damage to the brain reshapes behavior, impulse, and identity in unexpected ways. These are the cases where people don’t just change—they become someone else, revealing how fragile the line is between who we are and what our brains allow us to be.
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