Following Phineas
MAIN IDEA: What is the chapter mostly about?
the main idea is to show how they leaned about phineas life
VOCABULARY: What important words should the reader know to understand the text? (Use the Glossary to help you.)
neuron: a nerve cell that transmits electrical impulses.
staphylococci: a large tribe of related bacteria.
temporal lobe: the part of the cortex on the side of the head.
“occipital lobe—the part of the cortex at the back of the head.”
“parietal lobe—the middle portion of the cortex at the top of the head”
IMPORTANT INFORMATION: What important or significant facts/information should the reader know to understand the chapter? Provide notes (bullet points are okay) about the chapter to inform a potential reader (At least 12 facts - be sure and put information copied in quotation marks and provide a source).
* Phineas was bored so he left Boston and went to the PT Barnum American Museum which was a "freak show." page 43
* Phineas joined the freak show and would show people on an extra skull how he was injured. If they paid
"10cents more" they could part his hair and look at his brain.
* Phineas's mother says he gets a job driving a stage coach from Valparaiso to Santiago Chile for 7 years. page 46
* People don't know much about what phineas did or how he lived when he was in Chile.
* in 1859 Phineas goes to see his mom who is living with his sister in San Francisco. He is very sick. page 49
* Phineas gets better and try's to work. One day he has a "fit" or an epileptic seizure. page 50
* In 1860 Phineas has a lot of seizures. they are coming very fast and no one knows why they are happening. page 52
* On May 21, 1860 Phoneas dies because of all his seizures. it was probably hypothermia that really killed him.Page 52
* Dr Boca in France finds out that if you damage a small part of the brain it only does specific damage. He figures out why people who have strokes sometimes can not talk any more. Pg 54-55
*"Aphasia" is when you lose the ability to speak. "Receptive aphasia" is when you cant understand language. The ability to do these things are in two totally differnt parts of the brain. page 55
* In later years dr.John harlow became an important man in woburn. page 58
*dr.harlow wanted to ship Phineas's skull to massachusetts to study.
IMAGES: Provide images (at least 3) with captions either from the text itself or about something relevant you learned from reading the text.
AUTHOR'S PURPOSE: Why did the author include this chapter? (Entertain, persuade, inform?)
the main idea of the this chapter is to show how the found found import events that happened in his life
30 POINTS POSSIBLE - WEB PAGES ARE DUE THURSDAY, APRIL 17TH IN FINAL FORM - NO LATE WORK WILL BE ACCEPTED OVER OR AFTER SPRING BREAK
MAIN IDEA: What is the chapter mostly about?
the main idea is to show how they leaned about phineas life
VOCABULARY: What important words should the reader know to understand the text? (Use the Glossary to help you.)
neuron: a nerve cell that transmits electrical impulses.
staphylococci: a large tribe of related bacteria.
temporal lobe: the part of the cortex on the side of the head.
“occipital lobe—the part of the cortex at the back of the head.”
“parietal lobe—the middle portion of the cortex at the top of the head”
IMPORTANT INFORMATION: What important or significant facts/information should the reader know to understand the chapter? Provide notes (bullet points are okay) about the chapter to inform a potential reader (At least 12 facts - be sure and put information copied in quotation marks and provide a source).
* Phineas was bored so he left Boston and went to the PT Barnum American Museum which was a "freak show." page 43
* Phineas joined the freak show and would show people on an extra skull how he was injured. If they paid
"10cents more" they could part his hair and look at his brain.
* Phineas's mother says he gets a job driving a stage coach from Valparaiso to Santiago Chile for 7 years. page 46
* People don't know much about what phineas did or how he lived when he was in Chile.
* in 1859 Phineas goes to see his mom who is living with his sister in San Francisco. He is very sick. page 49
* Phineas gets better and try's to work. One day he has a "fit" or an epileptic seizure. page 50
* In 1860 Phineas has a lot of seizures. they are coming very fast and no one knows why they are happening. page 52
* On May 21, 1860 Phoneas dies because of all his seizures. it was probably hypothermia that really killed him.Page 52
* Dr Boca in France finds out that if you damage a small part of the brain it only does specific damage. He figures out why people who have strokes sometimes can not talk any more. Pg 54-55
*"Aphasia" is when you lose the ability to speak. "Receptive aphasia" is when you cant understand language. The ability to do these things are in two totally differnt parts of the brain. page 55
* In later years dr.John harlow became an important man in woburn. page 58
*dr.harlow wanted to ship Phineas's skull to massachusetts to study.
IMAGES: Provide images (at least 3) with captions either from the text itself or about something relevant you learned from reading the text.
AUTHOR'S PURPOSE: Why did the author include this chapter? (Entertain, persuade, inform?)
the main idea of the this chapter is to show how the found found import events that happened in his life
30 POINTS POSSIBLE - WEB PAGES ARE DUE THURSDAY, APRIL 17TH IN FINAL FORM - NO LATE WORK WILL BE ACCEPTED OVER OR AFTER SPRING BREAK
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“It’s hard to believe that this tamping iron shot through the skull without killing Phineas Gage. Dr. Harlow had their picture taken together in 1868 to document his case. Glennon Collection, Woburn Public Library, by permission of the Trustees of the Library”
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“Lucky or unlucky, the sharp angle of the tamping iron made all the difference to Phineas. It entered just under his left cheekbone, passed behind his left eyeball, and continued on upward through his frontal lobes. It exited his forehead between the two hemispheres of the cortex. The iron’s passage left him alive and conscious but forever changed. Illustration by Jerry Malone”
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“The skull of Phineas Gage appeared on the cover of the journal Science. Generated by computer, the red bar plots the exact path of the tamping iron through his frontal cortex.
From Damasio, H., Grabowski, T., Galaburda, A. M., “The return of Phineas Gage: Clues from the brain of a famous patient,” Science, 264:1102-1156, 1994. Department of Image Analysis Facility, University of Iowa. Reprinted with permission of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, copyright 1994”
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From Damasio, H., Grabowski, T., Galaburda, A. M., “The return of Phineas Gage: Clues from the brain of a famous patient,” Science, 264:1102-1156, 1994. Department of Image Analysis Facility, University of Iowa. Reprinted with permission of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, copyright 1994”
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“In his later years, Dr. John Martyn Harlow became an important man in Woburn, a state senator, an advisor to the governor, and a bank president. When he died in 1907, he left his large estate to various charities, including Middlesex County Medical Society. In 1998, the society had enough of Dr. Harlow’s money left to help pay for the bronze monument to Phineas Gage on the town green in Cavendish, Vermont. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School”
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