Phineas And Adolescents Similarities And Differences

Phineas and Adolescents similarities and differences

Phineas and adolescents, we will start off with Phineas first. Phineas Gage was a 25-year-old man when something changed his whole life around. Phineas was a hardworking man and was the construction supervisor of his crew. While on a job site in 1848 in Vermont, Phineas was tamping big rocks to clear a railroad. Tamping is when you use explosives to make massive rocks go away or uncombine from each other. While Phineas was setting off an explosive he got distracted and was thrown far away from the rocks. Phineas has a taming iron that helps him with the explosives; when Phineas was thrown back, the tamping iron was too and ended up going through Phineas' left cheek bone. This caused Phineas to never act or have the same features as before. Now adolescents, adolescents are young teens or young adults that also have problems with how they act, just like Phineas. Adolescents' brains are not fully developed like Phineas’ though. Phineas’ brain and behavior is quite similar and different to adolescents' brains.

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). As Phineas is like an adolescent there are many things like his actions or his social life that will never be back to