phineas Gage :
 (1823 - May 21, 1861) was a railroad worker, who due to an accident suffered severe hurts in the brain, specifically partly of the frontal lobe. Gage suffered well-known changes in his personality and temperament, what it were considered to be in proof of that the frontal lobes were the managers of processes related to the emotions, the personality and the executive functions in general.
Importance of the case for the neurociencias:Gage's case is considered to be one of the first scientific tests that were suggesting that an injury of the frontal lobe could alter aspects of the personality, the emotion and the social interaction. Before this case (and enough time later) the frontal lobes were considered to be structures silentes (without function), and without any relation with the human behavior. The neurologist Antonio Damásio has studied in depth Phineas Gage's case as well as other similar cases. In the " theory of the somatic scoreboard " it suggests that a relation exists between the frontal lobes, the emotion and the capture of decisions. Likewise he considers this case as historically for believing that it was the beginning of the study of the biological base of the behavior. Also the investigator Hanna Damásio has penetrated.




The neurologist Antonio Damásio has studied in depth Phineas Gage's case as well as other similar cases. In the " theory of the somatic scoreboard " it suggests that a relation exists between the frontal lobes, the emotion and the capture of decisions. Likewise he considers this case as historically for believing that it was the beginning of the study of the biological base of the behavior. Also the investigator Hanna Damásio has penetrated into the knowledge of Phineas's case and in the location of his injuries using the remains of the cranium and the bar to do a simulation for computer of the possible path of this one, concluding that the bar had affected the medial zone of both frontal lobes.