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Phineas Gage is famous for having an iron bar being blown through his frontal lobes. Although his case is usually described as the first of its kind, this month’s edition of The Psychologist has a surprising article on many lesser known cases from the 1800s, usually due to mishaps with early firearms.
The piece is packed with amazing case vignettes of people who have suffered serious frontal lobe injury but were described as relatively unaffected.
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