Phineas Gage: The man with a hole in his head
“Phineas Gage had a hole in his head, and ev’ryone knew that he oughta be dead. Was it fate or blind luck, though it never came clear, kept keepin’ on year after year…”
That song by banjo man Dan Lindner probably sounds like an outlandish myth, an old wives’ tale passed around a small town.
But incredibly, his jaunty tune about Phineas Gage is true.
He did have a hole in his head, and against all the conceivable odds, he should have been dead. But instead, his remarkable story changed the study of neuroscience forever.
This will always amaze no matter how deep in the field I go. The mind is an astounding piece of machinery.
