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Malcolm Macmillan updates a familiar tale, 160 years after its inception.

Phineas Gage – Unravelling the myth

Although he died in 1860, Gage has lived on as one of psychology’s foundation myths – a classic example of frontal brain damage affecting personality.

Neuroscience still haunted by Phineas Gage

First ever photo of Phineas Gage holding a tamping iron

The photograph shows Gage as a scarred, handsome, proud man, smartly dressed, with one eye closed, wielding the tamping iron that made him famous.

First ever photo of Phineas Gage is discovered

Key details of psychology's most famous case study are missing or distorted in many introductory psychology textbooks

What the textbooks don’t tell you about Phineas Gage

fMRI-based lie detection; animal consciousness; media violence; modern-day Phineas Gage; and more.


News, October 2012

Including the first (and only?) photo of Phineas Gage discovered; confabulatory hypermnesia; Recording tomorrow’s history; A weighty bias and much more.


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The Psychologist, September 2008

The student's guide to cognitive neuroscience 2nd edition Ward Jamie New York: Psychology Press, 2010. $53.96. ISBN 978‐1‐84872‐003‐9

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Although socio‐emotional changes are very frequently encountered after traumatic brain injury (TBI), the psychological mechanisms underlying these disorders are still poorly understood. This study aimed to explore the relationships between dysexecutive syndrome (assessed with the Behavioural Assessment of the Dysexecutive Syndrome [BADS]) and socio‐emotional changes assessed by the Iowa scales of personality change (ISPC) in patients with TBI. The BADS was thus administered to 25 patients with TBI and to 25 healthy controls. Simultaneously, a close relative of each patient was given the ISPC in order to assess socio‐emotional changes. Results indicated that patients displayed significantly lower executive performances than controls and experimented significant socio‐emotional changes. The Modified Six Elements Test was the only subtask of the BADS to be significantly related to behavioural changes, and more specifically to externalizing disorders. It is concluded that executive functions, and especially multitasking, encompass processes whereby one can consciously control one's emotional reactions and behaviours.

Executive disorders and perceived socio-emotional changes after traumatic brain injury

Despite the apparent sociability of human kind, immoral behaviour is ever present in society. The term ‘immoral behaviour’ represents a complex array of conduct, ranging from insensitivity to topics of conversation through to violent assault and murder. To better understand the neuroscience of immoral behaviour, this review investigates two clinical populations that commonly present with changes in moral behaviour – behavioural‐variant frontotemporal dementia and acquired brain injuries. Based on evidence from these groups, it is argued that rather than a single underlying cause, immoral behaviour can result from three distinct types of cognitive failure: (1) problems understanding others; (2) difficulties controlling behaviour; or (3) deficits in the capacity to make appropriate emotional contributions. Each of these failures is associated with damage to different brain regions. A more nuanced approach to the neuroscience of immoral behaviour has important implications for our understanding of immoral behaviour in a wide range of clinical groups, as well as human society more broadly.

Immoral behaviour following brain damage: A review

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