Brain In A Jar

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Brain In A Jar

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Published on Mar 1, 2025, 4:39:37 AM
Total time: 01:31:22

Episode Description

Brain In A Jar

 

Phineas Gage was an American railroad foreman who survived a traumatic brain injury.  In 1848, an iron rod shot through his skull and destroyed a chunk of his left frontal lobe. Though he survived the accident, the damage to his brain drastically altered his personality. Gage's story became a catalyst for modern neuroscience, which has advanced to the point scientists are now able to develop a brain in a jar.

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