Phineas Gage: Putting Phineas Together Again
MAIN IDEA: What is the chapter mostly about?
The chapter "Putting Phineas Back Together Again" is about putting Phineas back together so he could live for as long as he can since it is difficult to live when a tamping iron pierced through his brain.
VOCABULARY: What important words should the reader know to understand the text? (Use the Glossary to help you.)
IMPORTANT INFORMATION: What important or significant facts/information should the reader know to understand the chapter? Provide notes (bullet points are okay) about the chapter to inform a potential reader (At least 12 facts - be sure and put information copied in quotation marks and provide a source).
IMAGES: Provide images (at least 3) with captions either from the text itself or about something relevant you learned from reading the text.
AUTHOR'S PURPOSE: Why did the author include this chapter? (Entertain, persuade, inform?)
The author included this chapter to give more information for the readers, for the readers to know a little more about brain science, and to explain details about how they could make Phineas get fixed.
The chapter "Putting Phineas Back Together Again" is about putting Phineas back together so he could live for as long as he can since it is difficult to live when a tamping iron pierced through his brain.
VOCABULARY: What important words should the reader know to understand the text? (Use the Glossary to help you.)
- Frontal Lobe: a piece of the frontal cortex at the front of the brain
- This is important because this part is where the tamping iron went through Phineas' head.
- Broca's Area: the area that controls speech
- This part is a major part of the brain the tamping iron missed when it went though Phineas' head.
- Motor Strip: controls the sensory input
- This is another major part of the brain that the tamping iron could've hit when it went through Phineas' head.
- Somatosensory Strip: controls muscle actions
- This part is right beside the Motor Strip so it could've been damaged by the iron bar.
- Antonio and Hanna Damasio: brain researchers who work at the University of Iowa Hospital's and Clinics in Iowa City, they help people who have frontal lobe damage like Phineas
- These studied Phineas' skull to determine which path the tamping iron took when it went through Phineas' head with out him dying immediately.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION: What important or significant facts/information should the reader know to understand the chapter? Provide notes (bullet points are okay) about the chapter to inform a potential reader (At least 12 facts - be sure and put information copied in quotation marks and provide a source).
- The frontal cortex has the abilities to predict, to decide, and interect
- The Damsioses do tests like emotional tests which include sweaty palms
- "The emotional colors of their world seem to have drained away" (page 67)
- Once Dr. Harlow had the skull he found the problem with his brain
- The tamping iron went past the left frontal crotex
- Hanna Damsio had an idea on how to create a brain scan of Phineases brain
- The tam[ing iron passes through Phineases head at a steep angle
- "The tamping iron however, plows on through his frontal lobes, passing through the middle, where two hemisphere face each other." (page 70)
- The tamping iron and the skull of Phineases Gagae are at the Harvard Medical School in Boston
- The last time Phinease Gage came back with a loose tooth after he was borrowed for an exhibitation
- 1998 marks the 150th anniversery of the accident
- Phineas lived for eleven years after the terrible accident
IMAGES: Provide images (at least 3) with captions either from the text itself or about something relevant you learned from reading the text.
AUTHOR'S PURPOSE: Why did the author include this chapter? (Entertain, persuade, inform?)
The author included this chapter to give more information for the readers, for the readers to know a little more about brain science, and to explain details about how they could make Phineas get fixed.
This is the monument made for Phineas Gage.
This photo shows the path the iron bar took when it went through the head of Phineas Gage.
This is the iron bar that went through the head of Phineas Gage. The inscription on the bar says the date and that he fully recovered