Neuroscience
One of neuropsychology's and behavioral neuroscience's favorite historical case studies, Phineas Gage, is featured in this week's (02 December 2004) New England Journal of Medicine's "Images in Clinical Medicine" section, with two free-access .mpg videos by Peter Ratiu, M.D. and Ion-Florin Talos, M.D in their report, The Tale of Phineas Gage, Digitally Remastered.
- Using Brain Imaging To Reevaluate Psychology's Three Most Famous Cases
It's 50 years since the American neurologist Norman Geschwind published his hugely influential Disconnexion Syndromes in Animals and Man, in which he argued that many brain disorders and injuries could best be understood in terms of the damage incurred...
- What The Textbooks Don't Tell You About Psychology's Most Famous Case Study
Image: Photograph by Jack Wilgus of a daguerreotype of Phineas Gage in the collection of Jack and Beverly Wilgus.It's a remarkable, mythical tale with lashings of gore – no wonder it's a favourite of psychology students the world over. I'm...
- First Ever Photo Of Phineas Gage Is Discovered
A pair of photograph collectors in Maryland, USA, have uncovered what they believe to be the first and only ever photographic record of Phineas Gage - the railway worker who survived an iron tamping rod passing straight through the front of his brain,...
- Forget Everything You Thought You Knew About Phineas Gage, Kitty Genovese, Little Albert, And Other Classic Psychological Tales
The latest issue of The Psychologist magazine has just been published online and it features two open-access articles (here and here) that together drag psychology's classic tales out from the back of the cupboard, dust them down and cast them in...
- In The Weeklies
Here are some relevant highlights from this week’s major scientific and medical weeklies: New England Journal of Medicine 30 September 2004 The Images in Clinical Medicine section this week includes a piece about Communicating Hydrocephalus by...
Neuroscience
There Will Always Be Phineas
One of neuropsychology's and behavioral neuroscience's favorite historical case studies, Phineas Gage, is featured in this week's (02 December 2004) New England Journal of Medicine's "Images in Clinical Medicine" section, with two free-access .mpg videos by Peter Ratiu, M.D. and Ion-Florin Talos, M.D in their report, The Tale of Phineas Gage, Digitally Remastered.
- Using Brain Imaging To Reevaluate Psychology's Three Most Famous Cases
It's 50 years since the American neurologist Norman Geschwind published his hugely influential Disconnexion Syndromes in Animals and Man, in which he argued that many brain disorders and injuries could best be understood in terms of the damage incurred...
- What The Textbooks Don't Tell You About Psychology's Most Famous Case Study
Image: Photograph by Jack Wilgus of a daguerreotype of Phineas Gage in the collection of Jack and Beverly Wilgus.It's a remarkable, mythical tale with lashings of gore – no wonder it's a favourite of psychology students the world over. I'm...
- First Ever Photo Of Phineas Gage Is Discovered
A pair of photograph collectors in Maryland, USA, have uncovered what they believe to be the first and only ever photographic record of Phineas Gage - the railway worker who survived an iron tamping rod passing straight through the front of his brain,...
- Forget Everything You Thought You Knew About Phineas Gage, Kitty Genovese, Little Albert, And Other Classic Psychological Tales
The latest issue of The Psychologist magazine has just been published online and it features two open-access articles (here and here) that together drag psychology's classic tales out from the back of the cupboard, dust them down and cast them in...
- In The Weeklies
Here are some relevant highlights from this week’s major scientific and medical weeklies: New England Journal of Medicine 30 September 2004 The Images in Clinical Medicine section this week includes a piece about Communicating Hydrocephalus by...