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minus-squarePhunter@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·5 days agoThere’s a famous case of a guy who got a railroad spike blown through his frontal lobe and he basically became a huge asshole.
minus-squareTheTechnician27@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-219 hours agoIt’s so famous in fact that it’s frequently heavily exaggerated and distorted via telephone game from people who’ve never even minimally researched this case but decide to cite it for this claim anyway.
minus-squareWimopy@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·5 days agoPhineas Gage if anyone wants to look the case up. Classic psychology and neurology tale. Of course this happened before modern scientific standards and procedures were mainstream, so take everything with a grain of salt.
There’s a famous case of a guy who got a railroad spike blown through his frontal lobe and he basically became a huge asshole.
It’s so famous in fact that it’s frequently heavily exaggerated and distorted via telephone game from people who’ve never even minimally researched this case but decide to cite it for this claim anyway.
Phineas Gage if anyone wants to look the case up. Classic psychology and neurology tale.
Of course this happened before modern scientific standards and procedures were mainstream, so take everything with a grain of salt.