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We're looking at phineas gage.
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So phineas gage is a case study, but is extremely famous, sometimes even to people outside fields like neurology and psychology.
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And this is because, of course, ethically, if we want to look at what happens, if you damage a different parts of the brain, we can't do that on purpose.
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But it's often the best way to see what a part of the brain does, find someone in which it doesn't work, and see what they're like.
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Finius gage is one such example.
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So he was a construction worker, and he was working one day.
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He was a foreman, and a pole went straight through the front of his head, through his frontal lobe.
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So he experienced a pole through his frontal lobe.
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But he survived, and his cognitive functions seemed generally unimpaired.
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So people were really interested, does this change somebody? and it did appear to change his personality.
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So prior to the accident, people described him as being very hardworking, very responsible.
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After the accident, people said that he lost these features and really he became temperamental, so what they called fitful, so prone to anger, and he lost his ability for self -control...