...in the grossest profanity (which was not previously his custom), manifesting but little deference to his fellows, impatient of restraint or advice when...arranged than they are abandoned in turn for others more feasible. A child in his intellectual capacity and manifestations, he has the animal passions...

...pertinaciously obstinate yet capricious and vacillating, devising many plans of future aspiration, which are no sooner arranged than they are abandoned...child in his intellectual capacity and manifestations, hu has the animal passions of a strong man. Previous to hie injury, though untrained in the schools,...

...described very precisely and which still serve as criteria in the diagnosis of lesions of the frontal lobe: "He is fitful, irreverent, indulging at times in the...are no sooner arranged than they are abandoned in favor of others that he finds more practical." Since the beginning of the century, other cases of frontal...

...inclined to say that he has recovered ... The equilibrium or balance between his intellectual faculty and animal propensities seems to have been destroyed....intellectual capacity and manifestations, he has the animal passion of a strong man. Previous to his injury, though untrained in the schools, he possessed a well-balanced...

...desires, at times pertinaciously obstinate yet capricious and vacillating, devising many plans for future operation which are no sooner arranged than...abandoned in turn for others appearing more feasible... His mind was radically changed, so that his friends and acquaintances said he was no longer Gage. "...

...obstinate yet capricious and vacillating, devising many plans for future operation which no sooner are arranged than they are abandoned in turn for others appearing more feasible. His mind was radically changed so that his friends and acquaintances said he was no longer Gage. (p....

...manifesting but little deference for his fellows, impatient of restraint or advice when it conflicted] with his desires, at times pertinaciously obstinate,...abandoned in turn for others appearing more feasible" (p. 335). NEUROSCIENCE AND THE MIND Human personality is difficult to study, and scientific examination...

...Phineas Gage, a construction foreman who blasted an iron tamping rod through his left frontal lobe: He is fitful, irreverent, indulging at times in the...abandoned in turn for others appearing more feasible. Such patients are often given diagnoses of mania or antisocial personality disorder despite the absence...

...desires. at times pertinaciously obstinate. yet capricious and vacillating. divining many plans for operation. which are no sooner arranged than they are abandoned in turn for others more feasible" 1Macmillan. 19861. The same failure to work towards a consistent endpoint may also be...

...descriptions seem to me to be slightly different from, if not actually more extreme than, Harlow's "devising many plans of future operation, which are...they are abandoned in turn for others appearing more feasible."39 Gage as Metaphorical Alcoholic There are two mentions of Gage's drinking in the nineteenth-century...