Brain transplants are not currently possible, because nerves are tremendously sensitive to damage, and you can't really replace a brain largely because it would involve severing innumerable nervous connections (synapses), the vast majority of which will not reestablish properly within the new body. Every axon forms tens-to-hundreds of synapses with effector neurons or organs, all of which must be intact for the nerve to function correctly. Even only-partially damaged axons are unlikely to travel down their appropriate, convulted path after injury, resulting in non-functional nerves -- this same concept applies to brain transplants, as most axons would not reestablish appropriate and functional synapses, leaving the patient with severe neurological deficits.
2007-03-12 12:50:34
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answered by citizen insane 5
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Hmm.. Depends on the person whose brain is about to be transplanted. hehe.. Oh, and, of course, if he or she agrees.. I mean, it's sooo complicated.. It's like to move someone's personality into another body.. and someone's character too.. It can be a total incompatibility between personality, (not to mention the brain's "attributes") characteristic and physical structure.. Hard to imagine what the result will be.
Somehow I believe it would be like a "soul transplant". Because the human soul rests in the brain.. Otherwise, it might be a shock to that person, whose brain was transplanted. I wander what he or she will feel as he/she wakes up, if ever will.. =)
Anyway, my conclusion is, that it is impossible.
2007-03-12 02:28:04
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answered by Elena B 2
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No !!
Scientists are working in it but they could not find any mean to transplant a brain form one human body to other......Infact it seems impossible for the time being....because brain contain such a complex system and its tissues are destributed through out the body that human could not undertand it fully till now , and secondly its very delicate, consisting of cells which when die can never be produced again ....secondly after taking it out and making its nervous connection with the other body is a process which seems almost impossible ! and also brain needs contast oxygen supply and it dies within munites without it...and i fear its not practically possible to conduct such a big operations within minutes.............theoratical they have proven it but practically could not conduct it !
2007-03-12 10:37:40
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answered by ★Roshni★ 6
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IT is not yet possible to do this because the brain needs a constant supply of oxegeon and that there is not advanced enough technology to fuse a brain to a different brain stem.
I hope this was helpfull. But no fountaian of youth here.
2007-03-12 01:14:38
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answered by dan p 2
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No, and probably never in the future. The brain is not really a separate organ in the way a kidney or a heart is. The cranial nerves and spinal cord are extensions of the same tissue.
2007-03-12 04:59:23
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answered by Anonymous
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Where would you think that the donor brain might come from possibly????
A cadaver brain would not be of much use seeing as how it is dead. I don't expect that you would find many loving donors lining up to give theirs.
2007-03-12 08:23:39
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answered by Anonymous
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Only after they are both dead.
2007-03-13 01:07:22
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answered by xxx 4
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Not yet. If it were, I'd be frightened!
2007-03-12 01:55:43
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answered by Anonymous
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of course
2007-03-12 01:11:55
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answered by Emmalee Loves David 2
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Not yet.
2007-03-12 01:26:00
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answered by Biznachos 4
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