We can transplant practically everything else, what about the brain?
2006-11-09 05:05:19 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
randomstupidhandle-good analogy
Sue-that is exactly what i was getting to-I've got a friend who's body has been eaten up by cancer-but who's mind is great.
molgen2000-great info-your studies must be facinating.
2006-11-09 09:33:32 · update #1
Part of the problem is that we can't fix a severed spinal cord -- and we'd have to sever the spinal cord to transplant just the brain.
Suppose, then, that we transplanted the whole central nervous system? We'd still have the problem of attaching nerves, and unfortunately they don't regenerate to the extent needed by such a large injury.
We're not even close to doing such a transplant. Sorry.
2006-11-09 05:20:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds crazy! However if the intention was not to save the body, but the personality itself, one's brain could be transplanted to another newer healthier body (maybe cloned if the genetics are good) and in doing so live for as long the brain still healthy.....
How long can a healthy brain survive? Probably much longer than just the body!
I know…. Is crazy but think about … go back one hundred years and tell a person that heart transplant would be a good idea!
2006-11-09 05:22:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
We will probably never be able to transplant a brain like a heart, liver, etc. The human central nervous system is way too complex and with only a couple of exceptions in the olfactory bulb and hippocampus, adult neurons are not capable of regenerating - so, the new brain would not be able to connect to the new body. However, research currently be done has successfully implanted electrodes into human brains which has allowed them to move a cursor and perform simple operations on a computer.
2006-11-09 08:52:31 · answer #3 · answered by molgen2000 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not close at all. It is a 'simple' matter of connecting up the spinal cord and cranial nerves- but we have no way of doing this and aren't going to any time soon.
Imagine a tight five-foot thick bundle of unlabeled phone cords, cutting through it with a chainsaw, and then trying to reconnect them all correctly. And the only tool you have is a shovel.
If we could, first we'd cure all the quadriplegics.
It would make more sense to call it a "body transplant" than a "brain transplant," BTW.
And the technology to make artificial bodies ( see Ghost In The Shell movies ) may arrive first...
2006-11-09 05:19:54 · answer #4 · answered by randomstupidhandle 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All of the thousands of neurons from the donor's brain and the recipient's spinal cord would have to be identified for their precise and corresponding functions and then reconnected at the cellular (tissue) level. That's tough... and - not possible right now.
There is some pretty interesting research at regenerating/repairing nerve cells a certain sites along the nerve pathways a few inches away from the spinal cord - but that was about 5-7 years ago. Maybe there's been more recent developments.
2006-11-09 19:10:46 · answer #5 · answered by plenum222 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is not Frankenstien. All of the bodily functions are commanded by the brain. Until we can invent something that can temporarily replace that (as is done with heart transplants) it is impossible. Not only that but it is undesireable. To save a life give them a different brain? It would be a different person because that is where personality, intelligence and so on is. It is impossible and illogical.
2006-11-09 05:08:09 · answer #6 · answered by Artemiseos 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would say it will be very possible in the near future. Transplants have already been done on Rhesus monkeys - although they only survived for a week or two. However, the first heart transplant experiments had recipients only surviving for a short time and look how far we have come since then!!
2006-11-10 12:47:37 · answer #7 · answered by 13th Floor 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No you can't do that...
All the decisions you make are governed by your mind. If you did a brain transplant then it will try be like a running a Mac software on Windows platform.
Why not try to train the brain instead of stealing someone's trained mind...
2006-11-09 05:09:29 · answer #8 · answered by Knowliz 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-21 13:13:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
that is crazy. You do understand that if someone gets a brain transplant they want be the same person.
2006-11-09 05:08:02 · answer #10 · answered by â?¥ Pawya! 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋