A 26 year-old man named Guillermo Rodriguez died after his motorcycle collided with a truck. The accident occurred at Southeast Street and Federal Highway around 2 p.m. on Sunday, August 2, 2015. The police officers shut down the road in order to investigate the incident. The road was re-opened at 7 p.m. Detective Kevin Dupree is investigating the crash.
On December 23, 2013, Corporal James Brooks of the Naples Jail Center, Florida, was arrested for arranging to purchase a stolen laptop from a recently released prisoner. A guard at the Halawa Prison in Hawaii, James “Kimo” Sanders III, received four years in federal prison after being convicted of selling meth and taking bribes to smuggle contraband into the facility where he worked. Sanders was sentenced on July 10, 2014. Leangela Handy, a prison guard in the Louisiana state prison system, was arrested on December 24, 2013 for what police described as having a “drug store” in her bra.
Imagine that you were Phineas Gage's coworker looking at a huge iron rod go through the pointy end of a rod enter his left cheekbone, pass behind his left eye, through the front of his brain, and out the middle of his forehead just above the hairline. Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science mentions the process of how the accident happened and the recovery after the accident, the Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of a Teenage Brain then cites the process of a teenage brain and showing the thought process of the teenage brain. Both of these texts help tie together the connection of Phineas Gage and the adolescent brain. Phineas Gage was involved in an experiment that went wrong and let's just say it ended with a tamping iron straight through his head. After the tamping iron accident, Phineas's behavior and brain begin to be more similar to an adolescent's behavior and brain because he has made some very impulsive, made risky decisions, and used lots of vulgar language towards women, coworkers, and his peers.
Nonfiction Critique: Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science John Fleischman’s book, Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science published by the Houghton Mifflin Company in Boston in 2002, is an intriguing retelling of the almost unbelievable event that literally changed the man named Phineas Gage. The author reconstructions for the reader the events that transpire before and after an iron spear-like object is rocketed through the head of Phineas Gage and how the man recovers, but also does not. Fleischman expertly walks along the line of scientific fact and interest and gruesome detail. He uses the fascinating story of Phineas Gage to analyze and deconstruct a very detailed and complex science surrounding the human brain, and makes the material readable and accessible to a younger age bracket. The use of scientific terms paired with simplistic explanations and occasional parenthetical definitions aid in the understanding of the difficult content at hand.
They discovered a tumor in his brain, known as pilocytic astrocytoma. After an unsuccessful surgery that caused the tumor to come back later, they saw a story of Ben Carson operating
Even his speech due to the fact that it takes him awhile to speak a full sentence. With his movement his arms move non-stop or stay in one place. Sometimes he is stuck where he is sitting until he is able to move once again. This is how he was before he had a procedure. After the procedure he was like a new man.
According to Source A, The Ever-Plastic Brain, “Cognitive processes that rely on the prefrontal cortex, including many executive functions such as the ability to inhibit automatic behavior, undergo substantial and protracted development in adolescence.” Phineas’ prefrontal cortex is having damage and adolescent's prefrontal cortex is still growing. This makes finding many things difficult but also easy because they have a few of the same outcomes. However, Phineas’ frontal lobe injury caused his brain to never be the same. So be said, “The iron passage left him alive and conscious but forever changed” (Pg. 253 picture description).
Phineas Gage’s brain behavior only converted to be comparable an adolescent’s after his accident when using a tamping iron on September 13, 1848 in Vermont. The tamping iron that went through him was a meter long!! Phineas Gage’s brain and behavior was extremely close to the adolescent’s brain and behavior. Although there are many resemblances, there are also some differences between Phineas and adolescents. Phineas also relates to adolescents because of his brain after the accident.
His injury and the repercussions of it, has answered many questions about the brain and the role in plays in our bodies. September 13th, 1848 started out like any other day on the railroad for Gage but it surely didn’t end that way. His crew was moving rocks for a railroad track which involved drilling holes into boulders and filling them with dynamite. The entrance to the hole in the boulder would be filled with sand so that the blast would be directed towards the boulder and not the other way.
In his book The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Trials, Oliver Sacks accounts some interesting encounters with his patients (or “clients” as he believes is a more respectable term to call them). He has organized his collection of case studies by the neurologic disorder themes of the clients: Losses, Excesses, Transports, and the World of the Simple. The first part of the book is a collection of neurological disorders that Sacks categories as losses, or deficits. He describes their difference from typical deficits, as they originated in the right-hemisphere of the brain rather than left-hemisphere and have not been studied as much.
The behavior between Phineas and Adolescents is kinda different and the same because Phineas acted like a child and the Adolescents make very poor decisions which kinda revolves around Phineas because he did make some very bad/poor decisions and if Adolescents don’t have all the executive functions that they would need to have when they are an adult they would probably make poor/bad decisions too. When Phineas one part of his brain got injured Frontal Cortex he wasn't acting like himself making bad decisions and acting like a 5 year old but that was all because his Frontal Cortex was damaged and the Frontal Cortex controlled that behavior and Adolescence does not affect children or adults because it's rare but Adolescents are more likely to affect young adults because they are more likely to make risk taking decisions because their brain isn't fully developed. And if we look at the Adolescent brain they make bad/poor decisions when they are in their young adulthood and when they accident happened when they were in their young adulthood. My final thought is that Phineas behavior and decision making is not the greatest because of the accident and he was in his young adulthood and Adolescence made bad decisions because when you get into your young adulthood are brains are not fully developed and that causes us to make poor decisions like Phineas
Have you ever heard the story of Phineas Gage? If you haven’t, he was a young man that suffered a metal tamping iron entering and exciting his head. This injury led to him having damage to his prefrontal cortex, setting him back to having a similar brain structure to an adolescent. In the text, a gruesome but true story about brain science by John Fleishman, “Putting Phineas Together Again” I learned that if a mature prefrontal cortex endures a serious injury, it can truly change the person physically and mentally.
Since a person’s brain is so fragile, considering how important it is becomes even more daunting. After all, the brain, is the body’s ultimate controller, taking charge of even a person’s own desires and actions once it is compromised by injury, illness, or other ailment (Cahalan, 2012, pg.87). As much as the human race wants to believe they are in control, the truth is one event could drastically change
These statements agree with the work of Sousa (2012) in Brainwork: The Neuroscience Behind How we Lead Others, in that when individuals make decisions in error the brain will recognize that mistake in the future and direct conscious attention to the errors. This causes learning from mistakes. Assistant principals learn over time as they make decisions, and are less likely to repeat mistakes over time. Fullen and Hargreaves (2012) also report that after many years of practice and analyzing decisions, educational professionals know how to assess situations effectively, backing up the finding presented here by the
“All the hard work in the world won’t overcome a brain-based deficit” (Grandin and Panek 2). To say that copious amounts of practice alone will make a person an expert is an “injustice to the naturally gifted and a disservice to the naturally ungifted” (2). Our brains, as human beings, simply do not allow us to be an expert at something solely by practice. A person could become great at something through practice, but they must first have the genetic capacity to learn and excel at it.
