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Lets say: some accident happened and two people are injured. One with brain dead, body of other human totally destroyed and surgery of brain transplatation succeded. Who is alive human?

2007-02-24 03:05:32 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics Medicine

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Brain transplants are not possible, as nerves are tremendously sensitive to damage, and you can't just place one brain in another body, because that would involve severing innumerable nervous connections, the vast majority of which will not reestablish properly within the new body.

However, answering your question hypothetically, the personality and experiences of the surviving brain (i.e. those intangible traits that make each of us an individual) would persist, as those things are primarily stored in the limbic system within the brain. So, in your scenario, the person whose body was originally destroyed is the one left alive.

2007-02-24 23:23:13 · answer #1 · answered by citizen insane 5 · 0 0

Both. The donor body should accept instructions from the donor brain while the brain retains its original personality and functionality. The brain needs to make all the right nerve connections for the two to work together.

2007-02-24 11:16:38 · answer #2 · answered by bow_wow_wow_yippieo_yippiea 3 · 0 0

The brain. Whoever the brain belonged to is the person that survived.

2007-02-24 11:08:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

i dont think that brain transplant is feasible at this time.

but definitely, the 'donor' would have lost the brain -- will die. hahaha

2007-02-24 11:38:10 · answer #4 · answered by buji ph 1 · 0 0

Natalie is Correct.

2007-02-24 11:12:58 · answer #5 · answered by Kyle 3 · 0 0

Death

2007-02-24 11:13:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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