All In The Mind

Extreme cases of brain damage litter the history of neuroscience. Phineas Gage is perhaps the most famous. A railway worker in 19th-century Vermont, he managed to survive a catastrophic accident—the penetration of a metre-long iron rod through his head. What happened to Gage has become the stuff of legend, and fundamentally changed him and the way we think about the brain. NB: The All in the Mind podcast edition is a different program from the broadcast edition this week for copyright reasons. And, the streaming audio is on the BBC's website here.

NOTE - we cannot bring you the podcast or transcript of this series because it comes from the BBC and the ABC does not hold copyright.

This week's podcast comes from All in the Mind archives instead. Details and transcript are below.

You can hear the BBC series again on their website as streaming audio. The link to that is also below.

Guests

John Aggleton
Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience,
Cardiff University
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/psych/contactsandpeople/lecturing/aggleton-john-p-overview_new.html

Malcolm Macmillan
Professorial Fellow
Department of Psychology
University of Melbourne

Co-editor, Journal of the History of the Neurosciences

Antonio Damasio
Professor of Psychology and Neurology,
Universtiy of Southern California
http://college.usc.edu/faculty/faculty1008328.html

Dominic Hall
Curator
Warren Anatomical Museum
Harvard Medical School
Cambridge, Massachusetts
https://www.countway.harvard.edu/lenya/countway/live/menuNavigation/historicalResources/warrenAnatomicalMuseum.html

Andrew Bateman
Clinical Manager,
Oliver Zangwill Centre for Neuropsychological Rehabilitation
http://www.ozc.nhs.uk/default.asp?id=51&query=andrew%20bateman#highlight

Jacqui Cooper
Senior Occupational Therapist,
Oliver Zangwill Centre for Neuropsychological Rehabilitation
http://www.ozc.nhs.uk/default.asp?id=59

Chivorn Taylor
Clinical Psychologist,
Oliver Zangwill Centre for Neuropsychological Rehabilitation
http://www.ozc.nhs.uk/

"Michael"
Patient
Oliver Zangwill Centre for Neuropsychological Rehabilitation

Further Information

This week's streaming audio - The man with a hole in his head
The streaming audio for this week's radio is available on the BBC Four website at this link.

This week's podcast - Thomas Willis: The soul made flesh
Details about this week's podcast, which is not the same as the broadcast version for copyright reasons.

Publications

Title: Phineas Gage Information website
Author: Malcolm Macmillan
URL: http://www.deakin.edu.au/hmnbs/psychology/gagepage/

Title: An Odd Kind Of Fame: Stories of Phineas Gage
Author: Malcolm Macmillan
Publisher: MIT Press; 2002
ISBN-13: 978-0262632591

Title: Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
Author: Antonio Damasio
Publisher: Vintage, 2006
ISBN-13: 978-0099501640

Title: The Feeling of What Happens: Body, Emotion and the Making of Consciousness
Author: Antonio Damasio
Publisher: Vintage, 2000
ISBN-13: 978-0099288763

Music

CD title: Mystery and Memories: Banjo Dan's Songs of Vermont Volume III
Track title: Phineas Gage
Artist: Banjo Dan and the Mid-Nite Plowboys
Duration: 2'53"
Composer: Dan Lindner
CD details: Vermont Songbag

Presenter

Natasha Mitchell

Producer

Marya Burgess/Kyla Brettle

Reporter

Claudia Hammond