In the mid 1800s a man by the name of Phineas Gage worked on a railroad. One day, while sealing a hole with sand and pressure with a tamping iron the dynamite which he was tamping caught fire. This caused the rod to penetrate his left cheekbone, into his eye, and out his skull going threw his frontal lobe. Luckily Gage survived this dreadfully accident. According to the people who knew him before and after the accident Phineas Gage’s personality changed drastically. But most people ask themselves, how did he survive something so drastic? Scientists today tell us it’s because we can live without function from parts of our brain; as Phineas Gage who lived the rest of his life with his frontal lobe damaged and without function from his left eye.
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This case study also helped establish the idea of brain localization - each piece of the brain has it's own specific function - it also helped identify what the frontal lobe is responsible for.
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