Since October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month, we are dedicating this inaugural post to, Neuroscience's most famous patient and working class hero, Phineas Gage.
On Sept. 13, 1848, at around 4:30 p.m., the time of day when the mind might start wandering, a railroad foreman named Phineas Gage filled a drill hole with gunpowder and turned his head to check on his men. It was the last normal moment of his life...
Phineas Gage, Neuroscience’s Most Famous Patient