Sam Goldstein • Jack A. Naglieri
Editors

2014

In 1848, while working with Phineas Gage, a young man who miraculously survived a severe injury to his brain, physician John Martyn Harlow observed that Gage had lost the balance between his “intellectual faculties and animal propensities.” He had difficulty making plans and his loss of control led him to be disrespectful and profane.