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A Gruesome But True Story About Brain Science By John Fleischman

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Can you imagine an iron rod going through your head and surviving? Phineas Gage lived for 11 years after having the unfortunate brain injury. (chap 1, para 2)In the novel A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science by John Fleischman we learn about Phineas’s behavior changes. After the brain injury he is still alive, but he acts differently. That is similar to adolescents because their brains are still developing, and their actions are very similar to his.Phineas’s behavior is similar to an adolescent because he acts very immature just like a child/teenager. Phineas is different from adolescents because he had a brain injury. We also know that because in the other novel Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain by Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, we learn about adolescents behavior.

Phineas Gage, a man who had a brain injury, is similar to adolescents. I think this because in paragraph 32 it explains how he was unreliable, and at times, downright nasty. That relates to adolescence because they also are very impulsive like him. They say in paragraph 2 adolescents are very immature, and take risks, just like Phineas. More proof is in the middle of the passage thirty three, it states that he is like a small child. They compare him to a child, and having similar character traits as …show more content…

Phineas Gage’s brain was fully developed, but a tampering iron went through the front of his brain, otherwise known as the frontal lobe. On the other hand, in paragraph 5 it says that their brain stops growing when they are 22-25, and it is not permanent damage. Their brains can still develop, but Phineas’s brain can’t. Adolescents' brains are also different because they can understand social situations better than Phineas can, for example, in paragraph 32 Phineas says dirty and inappropriate things around women. Causing him to lose jobs, and not be able to have the same friends as he did before the

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