Phineas Gage and the enigma of the prefrontal cortex
Perhaps the most famous brain injury in history was a penetrating wound suffered by a railroad worker named Phineas Gage on September 13, 1848. Twelve years after his injury, on the 21st of May, 1860 Phineas Gage died of an epileptic seizure. In 1868 Dr. Harlow gave an outline of Gage's case hi...
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| Language: | English |
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Elsevier España
2012-07-01
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| Series: | Neurología (English Edition) |
| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2173580812001198 |