Main IdeasThe chapter is mostly about the accident of Phineas retold. The chapter is also about the when they scan his brain. Another thing the chapter is about is that they put Phineas' head in a museum along with his skull. The chapter than ended with where his head and rod is.
Vocabulary
purpose: natural to or intended for a person or thing.
gambling: play games of chance for money anatomical: of or relating to bodily structure.
Brainvox: An interactive 3D rendering and neuroanatomical analysis package developed for analyzing focal brain
brain: an organ of soft nervous tissue contained in the skull of vertebrates
Important Information
~ Phineas Gages accident is a textbook case.
~Phineas isn't the only person who has damaged the frontal cortex.
~"The Damasios have far more sophisticated equipment than Dr. Harlow did."(p.74)
~Dr. Damasios has a computer program called Brainvox, it reassembles the slices of the brain scan into three dimensional pieces.
~The brain is actually a very small area.
~"Brainvox calculates sixteen possible paths for the iron to follow through Phineas' head."(p.77)
~The last five routes are layed out by Brainvox.
~Phineas was lucky because the iron rod missed a lot of key areas in the brain.
~The rod damages the left hemisphere more than the right, and the front of the frontal cortex more than the back.
~The tamping iron and the skull of Phineas is now in Harvard Medical.
~The skull and the tamping iron are not going to travel anywhere anymore.
~If you got o Vermont you can see for yourself what happened.
Authors Purpose
In this chapter Putting Phineas Together Again is about how Phineas was not the only person who got a hole in brain. this chapter tells the reader that the the tamping iron that Phineas was injured with had more damage in the front if the cortex then the back. I think that the author is telling us this us because he wants the reader to know the tamping iron made a lot of damages to Phineas' head. The chapter also says that Phineas was lucky by not getting the tamping iron to damage the key areas of the brain. Also Mr. Gage's brain was small. As a doctor got a computer program, the program can scan the major cuts that was on Phineas' head. I think that the author put this part in the chapter is because he wants the reader to know what the doctors learned after Phineas had died.
Vocabulary
purpose: natural to or intended for a person or thing.
gambling: play games of chance for money anatomical: of or relating to bodily structure.
Brainvox: An interactive 3D rendering and neuroanatomical analysis package developed for analyzing focal brain
brain: an organ of soft nervous tissue contained in the skull of vertebrates
Important Information
~ Phineas Gages accident is a textbook case.
~Phineas isn't the only person who has damaged the frontal cortex.
~"The Damasios have far more sophisticated equipment than Dr. Harlow did."(p.74)
~Dr. Damasios has a computer program called Brainvox, it reassembles the slices of the brain scan into three dimensional pieces.
~The brain is actually a very small area.
~"Brainvox calculates sixteen possible paths for the iron to follow through Phineas' head."(p.77)
~The last five routes are layed out by Brainvox.
~Phineas was lucky because the iron rod missed a lot of key areas in the brain.
~The rod damages the left hemisphere more than the right, and the front of the frontal cortex more than the back.
~The tamping iron and the skull of Phineas is now in Harvard Medical.
~The skull and the tamping iron are not going to travel anywhere anymore.
~If you got o Vermont you can see for yourself what happened.
Authors Purpose
In this chapter Putting Phineas Together Again is about how Phineas was not the only person who got a hole in brain. this chapter tells the reader that the the tamping iron that Phineas was injured with had more damage in the front if the cortex then the back. I think that the author is telling us this us because he wants the reader to know the tamping iron made a lot of damages to Phineas' head. The chapter also says that Phineas was lucky by not getting the tamping iron to damage the key areas of the brain. Also Mr. Gage's brain was small. As a doctor got a computer program, the program can scan the major cuts that was on Phineas' head. I think that the author put this part in the chapter is because he wants the reader to know what the doctors learned after Phineas had died.