So brain transplants are possible now(difficult but possible)?
If scared nerve tissue can now be successfully regenerate, as the paralyzed patients that went to china for stem cell therapy are now completely recovered beside most of their dead nerve cells regenerate, so what's to stop brain transplants from being done now(meaning transplant a whole brain from one body to another like the chimp skipper transplant carried out by Dr. White)?
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This will never be possible.
In reply to your additional details: Your question was: will complete brain transplant ever be possible? My answer is a resounding NO. I am not sure what National Geographic are on about but they are "barking up the wrong tree" if they suggest that this will ever be possible. I tutor neuroscience to medical students and have published several papers on motor neuron disease and work surrounded by a brain bank, so I think I know what I am talking give or take a few. To begin with how would you keep someone alive when you whip their brain out considering that every organs in inextricably regulated by the brain? how would you join it to the existing spinal cord or would you take it out as in good health? how would you join up the cranial nerves and the billions of nerve tracts?? Source(s): Neuroscientist (PhD).
scarred rudeness cell regeneration is not possible. Your assumption is that this can be done, which currently it cannot.
There is progress being made slowly towards spinal rebirth, but it is a long way off. If it were possible in that would be no such thing as a paraplegic person.
By your attitude you seem to own decided already anyway so i wont waste any more time. Source(s): Also a neuroscientist
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This will never be possible.
In reply to your additional details: Your question was: will complete brain transplant ever be possible? My answer is a resounding NO. I am not sure what National Geographic are on about but they are "barking up the wrong tree" if they suggest that this will ever be possible. I tutor neuroscience to medical students and have published several papers on motor neuron disease and work surrounded by a brain bank, so I think I know what I am talking give or take a few. To begin with how would you keep someone alive when you whip their brain out considering that every organs in inextricably regulated by the brain? how would you join it to the existing spinal cord or would you take it out as in good health? how would you join up the cranial nerves and the billions of nerve tracts?? Source(s): Neuroscientist (PhD).
scarred rudeness cell regeneration is not possible. Your assumption is that this can be done, which currently it cannot.
There is progress being made slowly towards spinal rebirth, but it is a long way off. If it were possible in that would be no such thing as a paraplegic person.
By your attitude you seem to own decided already anyway so i wont waste any more time. Source(s): Also a neuroscientist
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