The Phineas Gauge Story

I'm not entirely certain if, since I didn't suffer like a massive massive brain damage or a head injury, I'm not sure if there's a correlation between changing behavior and just like an invasive surgery such as that. But that's one of my parents said that my anger started to increase. My first thought is, have you heard of the Phineas gauge story? Yes, sir. The one that went through his eye and out his eye. Yeah, it shot through his frontal lobe. Oh, he lived. He's just a totally different guy now. And so that's my first thought. Either you've got a brain lesion somewhere or when they were in there messing

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