What Really Happened to Phineas Gage? 

masterimbecile YES. Thank you for this!

😂😂😂oh man! you're the boss

Ferb xd

no

that's it, this is the only joke that should exist

Agree with your agreement!

@@Roaryer Agree with your agreement, with your agreement!

Birdsong Thats crazy

Wow, amazing. Also funny how you are so enthusiastic about your sister having a huge hole in her brain but I get it

More enthusiastic about their sister’s life and personality, I’d say. Nothing funny about family love. :-)

I’d like to know how a legally blind person gets a job as a trucker 😤

OH MY GOODNESS PEOPLE ACTUALLY SAW AND LIKED MY COMMENT AAH THANK YOU I'm gonna double check with my sis in the morning to fact check myself just in case since I'm paranoid I assumed the wrong section of brain, the scar is on the front left side, but I'll double check! ;u; If there's any way for me to share pictures, at least of her brain scan, I'm sure she'd be pretty cool with it since I know if I read this story from some rando comment on RU-vid, I probably wouldn't believe it. XD (gosh I'm sorry for dumb run on sentences hcidbcksd I'm really nervous about sounding like an idiot but I also love sharing this with people because this kind of medical/science stuff is so cool to me lol) @Kevin Benoit While I think he probably should've known he wasn't safe to be driving, the one administering his sight test at the DMV guided him through it instead of putting their foot down. The State asked my parents if they wanted to press charges against the driver, but when a lawyer friend found out the DMV goofed too, they kind of just forgot about it as Big Sis more or less lived her first 15 years in hospitals. ^^; He did lose his job and license, though. @Fake Name + @Kit Whitfield While I definetely love my family, our sense of humor on the matter can be warped for sure. :'D When my sister brought back the scan and told us the full news about her brain injury, my little brother gasped and said "So you're a LITERAL airhead!" She smacked his shoulder with a crutch. uwu I'm worried I'm rambling like an idiot I'm sorry I'm anxious sharing slightly more personal things because I know my family is weird as heck but I hope at least the science is cool to people?? 8'D

Nobody ever talks about his accident. Everyone only ever talks about him and his personality.

I feel like all the people who suggest PTSD have never met anyone with PTSD, and just compared a list of symptoms without having the relevant competencies to use such diagnostic criteria. If ignoring the evidence and facts to such a degree, why not say that the tamping rod was in fact a syphilitic penis and the personality change was symptomatic of both syphilis and of having your skull rogered.

@@HumanpersonRealname At the time there was no concept of PTSD so any such symptoms would have been explained as something else or dismissed. Any traumatic experience can make us react poorly even years later. He went through a probably very traumatizing accident and it stands to reason that he would have at least anxiety associated with the workplace. Maybe even PTSD since even today many sufferers goes undiagnosed.

@@HumanpersonRealname first recognition of PTSD came with Shell Shock, condition recognised during WW1, well over 50 years later

Was he even physically capable of having PTSD? I feel like that would be part of your frontal lobe since that controls emotions like fear, sadness, and anger and stuff, and his frontal lobe was definitely non functional

Surprisingly enough, we know for a fact that he actually had no anxiety or PTSD-like effects as a result of the accident. Dr. Harlow described Mr. Gage as very calm and even kind of witty about the situation... even while literally vomiting chunks of brain in the hours after the injury. He was reportedly rather eager to get back to work after recovering, but as was stated in the video it just wasn't really working out.

but the impact he had went through the mental roof... an even bigger stretch i suppose.

lmao

Ba dum tiss

You could say his experience was mind-blowing

And train tracks

“I like trains”.

@@zombies4evadude24 I hate trains.

@@phineasgage9592 you will love

He was born for the role

And Tuberculosis.

Same.

Me too

Same, I never heard these more ridiculous versions, interesting to see that some people thought these things.

Same, I din't even know that there were so many other versions

I too only heard the correct one lol

Haha, same here.

He was actually an adult

@@_KingOfCalifornia miner, not minor. someone who digs the ground for resources

@@7lllll I'm pretty sure he meant it as a joke.

Surely you'd have the other end of the rod pointing away from your head so to avoid injury if the rod gets ejected. I reminds me of when I saw a serial killer hit himself in the back with an axe because he didn't swing it right. You need to learn how to use tools properly, especially if using them a lot.

And now it will stay with me forever too 😬 definitely does not sound pleasant, for anyone involved

i often ask, if you were phineas gage, and you could decide whether or not to get into the accident or not with the benefit of hindsight, which would you choose? my answer is yes, do get into the accident because it is so good for psychology, but no one agrees with me

@@7lllll I can see both sides. I'd appreciate being able to help science but I also would like my brain to work as it was designed to. I lean toward more toward having full brain function.

That's kind of the history of neuroscience. People incurring brain injuries, then through those injuries becoming the focus of research into how the brain works. From Phineas Gage, to Henry Molaison, to Clive Wearing. Aside from brain scans, how else can you study the active brain except through injuries?

@@Ngamotu83 I didn't say that those injuries haven't done good for science, just if given the choice, that I wouldn't choose to be injured like that

@@HistoryNerd808 Michael Gibbs didn't reply to your reply to my reply. he replied to your original comment

In a short backstory... I was electrocuted and drowned (all in one sitting)... AND there has been a noticeable (for me anyway) deficiency in some "mental departments"... It IS worth pointing out that it's tough to remember a time when you were "better than this"... while you stare at a problem and feel the figurative "gears grinding" before you get to that solving part... ... IN my case, specifically, I was always profane as hell (even a bit obscene)... BUT the frustrations can account for the man being a degree more abrasive than his "old self"... Then you take the people around him, who might see this behavior change and assume (?) that it's some residual bitterness for the inciting incident. OR at the very least, the simplicity and profoundness of shock they might feel when this otherwise polite and publicly acceptable (socially conservative?) individual is suddenly prone to violently spewing obscenities at the top of his voice... the only "vent" for the frustration at hand. I don't get bitter over the accident I had. It was an accident... Sh*t happens. That does NOT help the frustrations when I can surely recall a time when some task was relatively simple, and yet, today I stare slack-jawed for several minutes "just wrapping my head around it" before I can do a damn thing. At least, (thankfully) my right hand has finally stopped randomly dropping crap... or throwing it. THAT was annoying and occasionally dangerous as hell. ;o)

I would be mad about the injury, the lost of the job ( it was a respectful good job, and he was good at it) would be enough to turn me into the most bitter person. Trauma, unemployiment, pain, shame, dude was stressed, depressed and anxious. Of course he would become someone else.

@@AndradeJessie my point exactly but better made.

This seems unlikely to me. According to Dr. Harlow's accounts he took the injury in stride, making sarcastic remarks about the situation even while he was choking out brains, and was eager to get back to work as quickly as possible.

That's awful..I'm so sorry. If you don't mind my asking, did you notice the changes immediately or did they develop in the months after the injury? My bf and I were in an accident and he has a TBI. He's incredibly normal-seeming, just a bit cranky. The doctors say it's due to the pain he's in. I'm just wondering whether it will worsen with time. It's totally cool if you'd prefer not to share and I'm sorry, again, about your friend.

@@gennstaa1312 Sudden change, due to the nature and extent of the damage. He regularly suffers seizures now, that's how significant the damage was.

@@limalicious id like to beat his ex girlfriend

My father suffered a major stroke and had very similar changes including aggressiveness, irritability and being short tempered, along with becoming less emotionally perceptive. He’s still my dad but definitely not the same person that he was.

@@galatea742 makes me wonder if I would even wanna live a life like that. God forbid I ever suffered a major head injury I would just hope that it kills me

Abby C hope your okay. Also how was the coma? Was it really as they say it is, that people wake up like it was yesterday?

Andriod Khan maybe medically induced comas are like that, but I felt like I had been asleep for years! The nurses asked if I knew what year it was, and I thought I had been out for a long time, so I said 2023. They thought I was crazy, but I was just confused! I’m okay now though, thank you!

YESSS

stop the cap

BOOO! Okay, fine.... Good one.

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What caliber was the bullet

Meanwhile I'm expecting questions regarding Gage on my exam tomorrow so the timing really couldn't be better SciShow Psych. Also I'm curious what you argued in your essay? The more I consider free will the less free it seems.

We don’t have free will, our brain decides to do things moments before we consciously think we decide to do them for ourselves. And literally every action we take is based on chemical reactions in our brain that tell us what we think is important.

@@xxXthekevXxx that is true to some extent, but you don't HAVE to act upon your impulses.for example Your mind will tell you that you need to eat, but if you wanted to you could make a choice to refrain from eating. It wouldn't be pleasant but fasting is something many people do. If you wanted you could even go on ignoring your body an mind right up until you die.

@Dream Delirium Why are we still here? Just to suffer? Every night, I can feel my leg... And my arm... even my fingers... The body I've lost... the comrades I've lost... won't stop hurting... It's like they're all still there. You feel it, too, don't you? I'm gonna make them give back our past!

@Dream Delirium True. I like that. "Here" is the only place anyone can ever be. Just like "now" is the only time that can exist. The past never happened and neither will the future.

shhhhhhh, let the man dream

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Daracaex +

I was looking through the comments to see if anyone had mentioned that!

@@samraffertymusic after i commented mine😂😝

I believe this is officially number 4, what with the song, the crash course episode, and the regular vlogbrothers video

"He was blasting rock when something distracted him, and he forgot to put the damping sand in"

He shoved the tamping rod into that little hole onto the blasting powder.

and suddenly his entire left frontal lobe had been turned into clam chowder.

You would probably die in an instant so i don't think you should care If something like this happens you are dead anyway

@@robinlikesgames4167 I'm guessing he doesn't want to be dead, then.

They survived, but Gabby Giffords still struggles with a lot of things and her speech is very clearly different.