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Phineas Gage was truly a man with a hole in his head. Phineas, a railroad construction foreman, was blasting rock near Cavendish, Vermont, in 1848 when a thirteen-pound iron rod was shot through his brain. Miraculously, he survived to live another eleven years and become a textbook case in brain science.
At the time, Phineas Gage seemed to completely recover from his accident. He could walk, talk, work, and travel, but he was changed. Gage
...New York Times best-selling author Lisa Genova uses her background in neuroscience to pen this poignant tale, her second novel after Still Alive. Left Neglected revolves around Sarah Nickerson, a high-powered consultant whose fast-paced world comes to a screeching halt when a brain injury leaves her with a condition called Left Neglect. Now Sarah must pay attention to things she has always tried to ignore, and look deep within to understand what
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