Phineas Gage was injured by his tamping iron nearly 140 years ago, and only one similar case has been reported since then. In this paper, the contemporary popular and medical responses to the news of Gage’s accident are summarized. An attempt is made to evaluate the contribution of Harlow’s treatment of Gage as well as …
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Moll, J., Krueger, F., Zahn, R., Pardini, M., de Oliveira-Souza, R., &Grafman, J. (2006). Human fronto–mesolimbic networks guide decisions about charitable donation.
Humans often sacrifice material benefits to endorse or to oppose societal causes based on moral beliefs. Charitable donation behavior, which has been the target of recent experimental economics studies, is an outstanding contemporary manifestation of this ability. Yet the neural bases of this unique aspect of human altruism, which extends beyond interpersonal interactions, remain obscure. …