{"id":38201,"date":"2025-09-29T06:57:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T06:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/neuroplasticity-the-incredible-story-of-phineas-gage\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T06:57:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T06:57:51","slug":"neuroplasticity-the-incredible-story-of-phineas-gage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/neuroplasticity-the-incredible-story-of-phineas-gage\/","title":{"rendered":"Neuroplasticity: The incredible story of Phineas Gage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A terrible accident left construction worker Phineas Gage with serious brain damage. Amazingly, he recovered &#8211; forever changing our understanding of the human brain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/royalsociety.org\" class=\"ssrcss-jx182a-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Made by BBC Ideas in partnership with the Royal Society.<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"ssrcss-h5qd1q-ListContainer e5tfeyi0\">\n<ul role=\"list\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/iplayer\/episode\/m0029cpt\/arena-my-brain-after-the-rupture\" class=\"ssrcss-jx182a-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Watch My Brain: After the Rupture on BBC iPlayer (UK)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ssrcss-h5qd1q-ListContainer e5tfeyi0\">\n<ul role=\"list\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/programmes\/b006qxx9\" class=\"ssrcss-jx182a-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Listen to All in the Mind on BBC Radio 4<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ssrcss-h5qd1q-ListContainer e5tfeyi0\">\n<ul role=\"list\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/programmes\/m002bbxm\" class=\"ssrcss-jx182a-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Watch Secrets of the Brain on BBC iPlayer (UK)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Animation by Sheetal Thankey, narrated by Claudia Hammond<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">\ud83d\udca1<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/topics\/cxw2g82zr01t\" class=\"ssrcss-jx182a-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Watch more videos at BBC Ideas<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/videos\/ce9r1e20p2vo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A terrible accident left construction worker Phineas Gage with serious brain damage. Amazingly, he recovered &#8211; forever changing our understanding of the human brain. Made by BBC Ideas in partnership with the Royal Society., external Watch My Brain: After the Rupture on BBC iPlayer (UK) Listen to All in the Mind on BBC Radio 4 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[12067,12065,12064,12066,134],"class_list":["post-38201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-gage","tag-incredible","tag-neuroplasticity","tag-phineas","tag-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38203,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38201\/revisions\/38203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}