Face agnosia, along with the varied neuropsychological disturbances that may accompany it, can now be analyzed with experimental paradigms and correlated with 2 neuro-anatomical loci of damage identified by neuroimaging methods. Phineas Gage, a railroad foreman from Vermont in the United States, holding the rod that drove into his head. The unfortunate incident made him the first live case study for neuroscience. My brain hurts! Fortunately, Antonio Damasio in his popular book, Descartes’ Error (1994),