The Brain Case studies

Phineas Gage:

1. Cause of Brain injury

2. Symptoms/ behavior

3. Part of the brain affected

4. What we now know this part of the brain is responsible for

1. The rod was propelled through Gage's skull, entering through his left cheekbone and existing through the top of his head.

2. He was described as: fitful, irreverent, indulging at time in the grossest profanity.. Capricious and vacillating.

3. The role of the frontal cortex is in social cognition and decision making is now recognised.

HM:

1. Cause of Brain injury

2. Symptoms/ behavior

3. Part of the brain affected

4. What we now know this part of the brain is responsible for

1.  He had epilepsy and he had a surgery to fix it but it went wrong.

2. Severe amnesia which is memory loss

3.  The temporal lobe and the hippocampus

4.  Memory recording new facts, faces and experiences.

Tan:L

1. Cause of Brain injury

2. Symptoms/ behavior

3. Part of the brain affected

4. What we now know this part of the brain is responsible for

1.  A lesion/ tumour which was caused by years of epileptic fits

2. Inability to speak and eventually paralysation.

3. Cerebellum

4.  Speech and movement

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