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Phineas Gage

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Phineas Gage

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Also known as Phineas P. Gage, The American Crowbar Case

19th century American railway worker who survived a large brain trauma

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Phineas Gage was born on 1823-07-09 and died on 1860-05-21. The subject is associated with a Commons category and gallery titled "Phineas Gage".

In a separate context, a name matching Phineas Gage appears on Last.fm with 558 listeners and a playcount of 4329. This entry is tagged with indie, metal, heavy metal, indie rock, and chilled. Additionally, Crossref lists five works, and the Vinony graph indicates the subject is referenced by 146 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 10 facts across 4 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
558
Total plays
4,329

Tags

indiemetalheavy metalindie rockchilled

There are three groups that are known by the moniker Phineas Gage. 1. Hardcore Metal group Phineas Gage, based out of Gore, Oklahoma, has blasted on the local metal scene having put out only a three song demo in 2011. How can you go wrong with a heavy metal band hailing from a town called Gore? You can't; and these guys prove it! Check out their MySpace page to hear their 3 demo tracks. 2. Phineas Gage is a hip-hop collective based in Gambier <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Phineas+Gag

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5 total works indexed

  1. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

    · 2001 · cited 18,623x

  2. Neurogenesis in the adult human hippocampus

    · 1998 · cited 4,979x

  3. In Vivo Gene Delivery and Stable Transduction of Nondividing Cells by a Lentiviral Vector

    · 1996 · cited 4,123x

  4. Validation of Clinical Classification Schemes for Predicting Stroke

    · 2001 · cited 4,020x

  5. Mammalian Neural Stem Cells

    · 2000 · cited 3,854x

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Key facts

Born
July 9, 1823 (date uncertain), Grafton County, New Hampshire , U.S.
Died
May 21, 1860 (1860-05-21) (aged 36), San Francisco Bay Area , California, U.S.
Cause of death
Status epilepticus
Burial place
Cypress Lawn Memorial Park , California (skull in Warren Anatomical Museum , Boston)
Occupations
Railroad construction foreman blaster stagecoach driver
Known for
Personality change after brain injury
Spouse
None
Children
None

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Phineas
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Grafton County
Place of death
San Francisco
Languages spoken
English language
Image
Phineas Gage Cased Daguerreotype WilgusPhoto2008-12-19 EnhancedRetouched Color.jpg
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medical condition
one-eyed
Commons category
Phineas Gage
date of death
1860-05-21
Commons gallery
Phineas Gage
date of birth
1823-07-09
name in native language
Phineas Gage
manner of death
natural causes
cause of death
status epilepticus
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Encyclopedic overview

Phineas P. Gage (1823–1860) was an American railroad construction foreman 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 over the remaining 12 years of his life‍—‌effects sufficiently profound that friends saw him (for a time at least) as "no longer Gage".

Long known as 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 mind and brain, par­tic­u­larly debate on cerebral local­i­za­tion,​ and was perhaps the first case to suggest the brain's role in deter­min­ing per­son­al­ity, and that damage to specific parts of the brain might induce specific mental changes.

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