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Found what this story

EmmaZahn — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 19:01:59 +0000

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Found what this story reminded me of:

Phineas Gage (1823–1860) was an American railroad construction foreman now remembered for his improbable survival of an accident in which a large iron rod was driven completely through his head, destroying much of his brain's left frontal lobe, and for that injury's reported effects on his personality and behavior – effects so profound that friends saw him as "no longer Gage".

Long called "the American Crowbar Case" – once termed "the case which more than all others is calculated to excite our wonder, impair the value of prognosis, and even to subvert our physiological doctrines"

Phineas Gage influenced 19th-century discussion about the brain, particularly debate on cerebral localization, and was perhaps the first case suggesting that damage to specific regions of the brain might affect personality and behavior.

Or that he's been elected but

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 18:55:27 +0000

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Or that he's been elected but he doesn't know.

$50 says he runs for

Qnonymous — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 18:42:51 +0000

In reply to Trepanation Alert: youth survives spear through brain

$50 says he runs for office.

Or that his friend has already been elected.

Now that's a story worth a

EmmaZahn — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 17:21:16 +0000

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Now that's a story worth a follow up every year or so.