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The Mind & The Body: How physiological changes in both body and brain states guide our choices and behaviors

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The Correlation Between Thought and Behavior

There's a correlation between the things that we experience in our mind and what's actually happening in our brain. A gentleman named Phineas Gage in 1848 who was horribly injured in a railroad accident he was in his team were clearing grounds to make the railroads flat. During a controlled explosion a rod went through his cheek up through his brain at the top of his head  and completely damaged his left prefrontal cortex and his personality just completely changed. You could go to any ward of a hospital where stroke victims are being treated and you'll see significant personality changes after people different regions of people's brains have been damaged in stroke or of course tumors can also cause significant personality changes they result

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