Phineas Gage

Phineas Ggae was an American railroad construction foreman which had a famous accident that could have killed him but survived,  being remembered until today for this tragic accident. He was blasting rocks in Cavendish,Vermont in 1848 when a thirteen pount iron rod blew and traspassed directly through his head leaving him alive but with a hole on his head for the eleven years he had of life after this accident. It seemed like Gage had recovered from his acdicent and everything was going to be the same. He could walk, talk, work but still something in his head changed. His doctor said "Gage was no longer Gage"; before his accident he was well liked and got along well with the people that surrounded him but after this he became mean, rude and impossible to get along with easily. What is taken out from this accident that all of us have learned about is that the their are some parts of our brain that can be serverely damage but that does not mean we are going to die and that also, one of those parts of our brain is the frontal lobe which controls our emotions and personality and that it can be drastically changed if some part of the lobe damages or gets destroyed. The brain has something called localization of function. That means that every part of the brain is different and has different functions live for example vision, control of voluntary movement, language understanding. This might seem obious and logical for someone but also their are some organs, such as liver, that do not eshibit localization of function. Brain lateralization is the same thing as brian localization. It is where both sides of your brain are not identical and have different roles and specialized functions.

http://facstaff.gpc.edu/~bbrown/psyc1501/brain/loclat.htm
http://facstaff.gpc.edu/~bbrown/psyc1501/brain/loclat.htm

http://desdeelmanicomio.blogspot.com/2009/07/phineas-gage-el-hombre-que-cambio-de.html

http://agelessmarketing.typepad.com/ageless_marketing/2006/01/an_aging_societ.html

http://www.psywww.com/intropsych/ch02_human_nervous_system/phineas_gage.html