

Icon, revealed
Newly discovered image offers fresh insights about medical miracle

For a century and a half, the saga of Phineas Gage has captivated brain researchers, psychology students, even buskers, their lugubrious odes memorializing the railroad man whose brain was pierced by an iron bar. (Full article: 1234 words)
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