stupid question but you should still answer it!!?

Question

okay so i was wondering if there was such thing as a brain transplant (which i know there isn't) wouldn't you like have all that persons memory.. and what if they had like turret's or something wouldn't you have it too because you have their brain? i know this is stupid but i'm curious. thanks! and no mean answers please.. this is for nice people! :]

Answer 1

Not a stupid question, very thought provoking. Medical science is making so many advances so fast. A few years ago a face transplant would have been considered science-fiction. We see startling new advances each year in surgery and prosthetics. I would not discount the possibility that in the future some form of brain transplant, will become a reality. Perhaps not the entire brain, but some part of it. Fascinating subject and shows you're really thinking!

Answer 2

There have been experiments in highly developed animals such as monkeys where the brain has been successfully transplanted. In one set of investigations the brain was retained in the skull and the head and transplanted to a new monkeys body successfully., The problem seems to be with the spinal cord. Turret's ? The memory part would be cool if they had some really good memories like mine, man youd have a blast from my past.

Answer 3

Memories are stored in the brain. If you could transplant a persons brain, you would have that same person but in a different body. There are too many connections that have to be made on a microscopic level just right for brain transplants to work any time too.

BTW its Tourette syndrome. (I didn't know I looked it up) This seems to be a brain condition so it would go to the new body too.

Answer 4

Yes a complete brain transplant would probably transfer all the memories of the previous person. It would be more likely that they would develop a way to only transplant part of the brain tissue instead of the whole thing to avoid things like that.

As for turrets or any other disease involving neurological symptoms, they would probably test for that in donors before allowing them to donate their organs, just like they test other organs and blood.

Answer 5

Actually, this is an interesting question. Others have answered it pretty thoroughly, but i wonder about neurochemical problems like chronic depression, bipolar disorder, et al. Specifically, i wonder if a brain would produce a neurotransmitter, say, serotonin, the same way if it was transplanted into a different body and, if not, why not.

Seems logical that it would, but not a sure thing. I wonder if we'll ever find that out . . . .

Answer 6

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Answer 7

As you noted, "brain transplants" are not possible for humans. If, however, it were possible, you would have any brain-based conditions that the original owner possessed (e.g., tourette's syndrome, epilepsy, mental retardation, depression). Memories, however, are more complex. Generally speaking, however, you would also have the same memories ("muscle memory", however, would probably be limited).

Answer 8

Never been successful. They have cut the connection between the left and right hemispheres of the brain for severe epileptics, removed parts of the brain to alleviate seizures and help with schizophrenia and done lobotomies. All of this is highly experimental, expensive and dangerous. For some people with severe uncontrollable epileptic seizures, it has helped but again, it is risky. Medicine is learning-by-proxy.

Answer 9

They know the brain is th seat of memory and personslity;so yes the person would be who the brain belonged to. they would be like a bany having to learn to control of the new body. after all of that comes the problem of are they they person of the body ar the person of the brain for identy!!!!

Answer 10

You brain is you. Your brain is you. THE END.

your body is just how your brain survives.