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A photo of Phineas Gage has been discovered!  Gage is one of the most famous case studies in psychology and neuroscience, due to his survival of an accidental explosion that drove a tamping iron through his skull.  The giant rod passed directly through his frontal lobe, and despite his physical recovery, Gage was never the same.  His personality was greatly altered thereafter; he became emotionally labile, vulgar, and unable to hold down a steady job.  His story is really kind of tragic; he survived, but the pleasant, well-liked person that he had been before the accident disappeared. Read more about the discovery by the Wilguses, who posted the photo on flickr, and about Gage himself.