Phineas Gage: The evolution of the lecture room psychopath

In Intro Psych 101, you probably studied Phineas Gage, the 19th century railroad worker whose personality completely changed after a tamping rod went through his skull - thus demonstrating the frontal lobe theory of personality.

Or, is this just another of the many things we know that ain't so?

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