Biological Influences - Case Studies

Phineas Gage

T or F: The tamping iron entered just below his left cheekbone, passed behind his left eyeball, and continued on upward through his frontal lobe.

• True
• False

Phineas Gage

The below is not an example of damage to the frontal lobe.

• Changes in personality

• Difficulty in regulating emotions

• Vision

• Weakness on one side of the body

The real name of HM was

• Henry Molaison

• Harold Milner

• Heston Minuchin

• Hector McMolaison

HM underwent brain surgery in 1953 to treat which condition?

• severe epilepsy

• brain tumour

• stroke

• parkinsons

Surgeon William Scoville removed areas of HM's...

• frontal lobe

• temporal lobe

• parietal lobe

• occipital lobe

HM's hippocampus was completely removed on both sides of his brain

• true

• false

HM would read newspaper or magazine several times not realising he had already read it.

• true

• false

In Maguire et al (2000) what area of the brain had an increased amount of grey matter in London Taxi Drivers

• Occipital lobe

• Hippocampus

• Cerebellum

• Limbic system

In which of the below case studies did the subject's personality change

• Phineas Gage

• Henry Molaison

In which of the below case studies did the subject have the inability to form new declarative memories

• Phineas Gage

• Henry Molaison